Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Enemy
• Danger
• Surrender

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• Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Enemy
  • Danger
  • Surrender