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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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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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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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