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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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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Mastery passes often for egotism.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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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.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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