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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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