Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
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Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
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if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
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Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"
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Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
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Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact.
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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
