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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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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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I hate all explanations they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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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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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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