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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 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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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