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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.
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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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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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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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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