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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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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.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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