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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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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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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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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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