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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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Every beginning is cheerful.
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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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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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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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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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