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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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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
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