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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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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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