Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.

  

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• Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Power
  • Moral