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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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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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To create something you must be something.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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