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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

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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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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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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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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