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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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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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On every mountain height is rest.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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