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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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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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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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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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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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