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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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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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The solution of every problem is another problem
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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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