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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Do not hurry do not rest.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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