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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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