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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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Life's objective is life itself.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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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 most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The world remains ever the same.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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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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No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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