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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 highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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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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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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