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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.

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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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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