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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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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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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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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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