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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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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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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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