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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: German
Born: August 28, 1749
Died: March 22, 1832

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