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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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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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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.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure perform whatever she commands.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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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 in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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