Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 25

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. View quote
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Blood is a very special juice. View quote
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies. View quote
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I do not speak of what I cannot praise. View quote
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written, and of this but little is extant. View quote
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. View quote
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If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. View quote
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast. View quote
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them. View quote
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
True happiness springs from moderation. View quote
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As our inclinations, so our opinions. View quote
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A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. View quote
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Deny yourself You must deny yourself That is the song that never ends. View quote
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense And chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it. View quote
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I wait for the morning of my tears. View quote
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Everything transitory is but an image. View quote
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. View quote
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable. View quote
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love. View quote
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give You'll never catch up with a mere hope. View quote
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? View quote
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Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me. View quote
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