Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
German writer and poet
Lived from: 1749 - 1832
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
Germany
Born: 28 august 1749 Died: 22 march 1832
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
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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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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.
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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 as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.
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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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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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