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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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The world remains ever the same.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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