Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.”
“Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!”
“If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!”
“Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”
“Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.”
“Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others”
“To a valet no man is a hero”
“The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.”
“The deed is all, the glory nothing.”
“The history of mankind is his character.”