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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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