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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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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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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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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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