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Life's objective is life itself.
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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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