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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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Only law can give us freedom.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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