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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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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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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
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