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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
Aphorist
Art Critic
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Frankfurt/Main
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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