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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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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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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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