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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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All perishable is but an allegory.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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