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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

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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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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Collectors are happy people.
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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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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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