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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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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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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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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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