Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Knows
  • Wrong
  • Conscious