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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 one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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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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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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The world remains ever the same.
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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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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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