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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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