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No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.
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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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