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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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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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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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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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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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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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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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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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