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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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One lives but once in the world.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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