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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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