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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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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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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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