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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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The little man is still a man.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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Every beginning is cheerful.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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