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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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Frankfurt/Main
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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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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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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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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