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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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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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All beginnings are delightful the threshold is the place to pause.
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure perform whatever she commands.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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