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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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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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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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
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Our friends show us what we can do. Our enemies teach us what we must do.
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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The deed is everything, the glory naught.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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