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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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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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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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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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The history of a man is in his character.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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