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Errors belong to libraries truth, to the human mind.

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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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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The little man is still a man.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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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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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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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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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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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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