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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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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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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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