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Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

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It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

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A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

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I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

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What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

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Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

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In art, the best is good enough.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

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Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.

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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

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Every offense is avenged on earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

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