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Manners form the great charm of women.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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