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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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Life's objective is life itself.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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There is no trifling with nature it is always true, grave, and severe it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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