Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.
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Try not to miss me when I'm gone.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?
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The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
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Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.
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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
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... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.
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Nothing will stop me, and whether I'm here or wherever I may be, I'll always have the same feelings, I'll say what I feel.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
