6.23.2011

Selections from Goethe

"What will not mix don't let us press together
I leave you free to choose your when and whether
In turn leave me at peace; we'll never mix, we two
I who was born antique, and you, so new!"

"If i could fit into their measure
I would not be the man I am."

"We peer so eagerly into the future because we should like so much by force of our unexpressed wishes to direct in our favor the uncertain probabilities that hover in it."

"No one would speak much in company if he realized how often he misunderstands others."

"In truth, it is man's mistakes which make him amiable."

"In the work of destruction all false arguments prevail..."

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