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All perishable is but an allegory.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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The little man is still a man.
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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