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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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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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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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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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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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