Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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A useless life is an early death.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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