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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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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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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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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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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The history of mankind is his character.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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