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The aim of living is life itself.
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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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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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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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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