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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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