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Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  1. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory wit…
  2. Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
  3. No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
  4. Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor! Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
  5. Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
  6. Am I a god? I see so clearly!
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  8. Two souls alas! dwell in my breast.

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Topics in this quote

  • psychology
  • age
  • self growth
  • aging
  • inner child
  • maturity

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