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The history of a man is in his character.
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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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Blood is a very special juice.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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