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Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

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Half, Busy, Praise

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

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Fear, Thinking, People

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

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Wall, Believe, Blow

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

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Soon Enough, Faults, Youth
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

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Education, Accomplishment, Purpose

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

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Marriage, Men, Married

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

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Equality, Matter, Ability

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.

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Common, Criticize, Remains

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

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Men, Expression, Giving

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

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Heart, Keys, Society

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

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Mistake, Age, Needs

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

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Fashion, Thinking, Elderly

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

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Home, Tolerance, Herbs

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.

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Thinking, Essence, Superstitions

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

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Moral, Poet, Scientist

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

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Bible, Shining, Mind

I wait for the morning of my tears

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Morning, Waiting, Tears

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

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Men, Goal, Achieve

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

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Two, Soul, Mastery
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

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Heart, Long, Terrible
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.162, Princeton University Press

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

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Messages, Should, Behinds

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

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Country, Believe, Thoughtful

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

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Missing, Soul, Alive

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

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Men, Hair, Wind
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832). “Faustus: from the German of Goethe”, p.76

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

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Fall, Winter, Ideas
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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