Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
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What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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Giving is the business of the rich.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
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Each animal is an end in itself.