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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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The highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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