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Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
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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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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Collectors are happy people.
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