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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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The little man is still a man.
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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