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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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