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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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