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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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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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