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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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