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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

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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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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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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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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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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I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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