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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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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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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 world is full of contradiction.
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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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