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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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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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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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