Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.
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Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.
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Try not to miss me when I'm gone.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?
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The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
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We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.
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If nothing else is left, one must scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.
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Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
