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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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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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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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