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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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