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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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Blood is a very special juice.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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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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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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