Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Returning