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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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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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