Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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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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Association with women is the basis of good manners.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten.
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The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden,Doch ihre Weine trinkt er gern.
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Life is too short to drink bad wine.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?
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Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.