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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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 coward only threatens when he is safe.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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