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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no trifling with nature it is always true, grave, and severe it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
