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Maxioms by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of read more

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants

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The sea is flowing ever,
The land retains it never.

The sea is flowing ever,
The land retains it never.

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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes read more

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

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Yet through delivery orators succeed,
I feel that I am far behind indeed.
[Ger., Allein der Vortrag read more

Yet through delivery orators succeed,
I feel that I am far behind indeed.
[Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck,
Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

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