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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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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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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 public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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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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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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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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