Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
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I love being Charlie Daniels for good, bad, or indifferent.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.
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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
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Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
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A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.
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Hate destroys the hater.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
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To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?
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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
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Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
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Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
