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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life it is only part of our experience we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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