One lives but once in this world.

Man lebt nur Einmal in der Welt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clavigo

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Topic

Preciousness of life Nature of life

Speaker

Carlos

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Clavigo

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1774 1770s 18th century

Occupation

Writer

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Germany Europe

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Citation

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Clavigo. Leipzig: In der Weygand'schen Buchhandlung, 1774, act 1, sc. 1.

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Another quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities

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Topic
Marriage
Speaker
Mittler

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source
Elective Affinities
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1808 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Wahlvenwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]. Tubingen: J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, 1809, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities, translated by David Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Another quote from the 1770s

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Alexander Hamilton

New-York Gazetteer

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Topic
Natural law

Author

Alexander Hamilton
Source
The Farmer Refuted New-York Gazetteer
Genre
Political literature
Language
English
Time
1775 1770s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. "The Farmer Refuted." New-York Gazetteer. New York: James Rivington, 23 Feb. 1775.

Current Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. "The Farmer Refuted &c., [23 February] 1775." Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0057.

Another quote about Nature of life

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

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Topic
Being present Nature of life Life

Author

Allen Saunders
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.

Another quote originally in German

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic
Connecting with others

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke
Medium
Letter
Language
German
Time
1901 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.