Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence.
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If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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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.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.
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Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.