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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

German writer and poet

Lived from: 1749 - 1832

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 28 august 1749 Died: 22 march 1832

  • Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
  • A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
  • People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
  • Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
  • Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
  • All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
  • Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
  • No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
  • The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
  • People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
  • If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
  • Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
  • The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
  • Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
  • Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
  • I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
  • There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
  • This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
  • A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
  • 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.
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  • The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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  • To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
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  • To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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