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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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