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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I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.
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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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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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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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Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
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As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
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The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
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I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'
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The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player.
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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.
