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Let there be truth between us.
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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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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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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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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