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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
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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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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