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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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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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