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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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Frankfurt/Main
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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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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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]
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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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