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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F0%2F0e%2FGoethe_%2528Stieler_1828%2529.jpg%2F250px-Goethe_%2528Stieler_1828%2529.jpg&hash=78e7102ab6bfa88454f4b7c7e9aa14ff02ad00e8)
A German writer and polymath. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath. Goethe is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature side by side with Schiller. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long poem of modern European literature. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Here are some famous quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Time itself is an element.
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Architecture is frozen music.
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Wisdom is only found in trudi.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Let us live while we are alive!
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Life's objective is life itself.
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Man errs as long as he struggles.
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A useless life is an early death.
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Faith is hidden household capital.
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I am what I am so take me as I am!
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Every second is of infinite value.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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The unnatural - that too is natural.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
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To rule is easy to govern difficult.
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I call architecture 'petrified music'.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
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Everyone hears only what he understands.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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When ideas fail words come in very handy.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Man must strive and in striving he must err.
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Enjoy when you can and endure when you must.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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Trust yourself then you will know how to live.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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The society of women is the foundation of good manners.
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Beautiful is greater than Good for it includes the Good.
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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
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As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
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Who does not know another language does not know his own.
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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
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There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
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Divide and rule a sound motto. Unite and lead a better one.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.
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Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
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Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
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And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure; whatever she commands do.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise.
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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.
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Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Cursed Mammon be when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!
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God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.
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If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.
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How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.
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Everything has been thought of before but the difficulty is to think of it again.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.
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What you can do or dream you can do begin it; boldness has genius power and magic in it.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous the sensible man hardly anything.
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Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
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To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
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Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius power and magic in it.
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development and attaches her curse on all inaction.
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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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Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
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We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition you usually find that you are sick.
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Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
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So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.
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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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Love is an ideal thing marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.
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Thou must (in commanding and winning or serving and losing suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.
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Music in the best sense does not require novelty; no the older it is and the more we are accustomed to it the greater its effect.
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Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.
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One ought each day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if possible speak a few reasonable words.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.
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Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.
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One ought every day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style let him first possess a noble soul.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later before they are aware they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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That is the true season of love when we believe that we alone can love that no one could ever have loved so before us and that no one will love in the same way after us.
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Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.
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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
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A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.