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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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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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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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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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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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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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