Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Everything is hard before it is easy.
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Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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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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Only law can give us freedom.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World.
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Giving is the business of the rich.
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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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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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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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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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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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I will be lord over myself.
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All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
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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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Each animal is an end in itself.
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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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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.