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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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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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