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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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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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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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