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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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