Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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