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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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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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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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