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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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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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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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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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