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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
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