Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 13

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. View quote
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. View quote
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The little man is still a man. View quote
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. View quote
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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. View quote
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. View quote
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. View quote
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. View quote
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. View quote
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. View quote
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Mastery passes often for egotism. View quote
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I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true. View quote
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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. View quote
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. View quote
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. View quote
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. View quote
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will. View quote
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. View quote
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A clever man commits no minor blunders. View quote
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. View quote
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The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. View quote
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. View quote
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