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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
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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In art, the best is good enough.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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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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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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