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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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Gray is the color of all theory
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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