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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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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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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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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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