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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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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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