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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

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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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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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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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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