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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]

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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed.
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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