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Poet, writer and playwright, born thursday august 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), died thursday march 22, 1832 in Weimar (Germany)
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Mad are those who cannot see that the place means nothing, and that he who has the first position rarely sits in the most important office! How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers from their secretaries! Who is then the first? I think he who dominates others, he who has sufficient power or cunning to make his passion work out in the execution of his plans.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
from the book "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    When you men talk of something, do you have to always say: it is folly, it is wise, it is good, it is bad! But what does this mean? Have you, who talk this way, investigated the internal movements of an action? Do you know how to understand with certainty the causes, and understand why that happened and why it had to happen? If you had done so you would be less ready to judge.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    from the book "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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      More than once have I been drunk, my passions are not far from delirium, and of these two things I do not feel sorry because I have learnt to understand that all extraordinary men that have done something great, and that seemed impossible to achieve, have been considered in every era to be drunks or mad. But, even in everyday life it is unbearable to hear say, every time that someone is about to do a free, noble and unexpected action "That man is drunk, he is mad!"
      Be ashamed of yourselves, you sober and wise men!
      Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
      from the book "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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        The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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