Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?All things are alive in your sacred wallsEternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.
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Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
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Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
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Time itself is an element.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
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Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod...
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Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
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Colour itself is a degree of darkness.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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Do not hurry; do not rest.