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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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