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What is fruitful alone is true.
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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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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