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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Society
On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
4.2 · 45 votes · 101 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
3.4 · 50 votes · 4 reads
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Virtues
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
4.9 · 35 votes · 113 reads
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Time
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
4.7 · 11 votes · 140 reads
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Society
Only law can give us freedom.
5.0 · 24 votes · 9 reads
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Various
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
4.8 · 47 votes · 81 reads
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Feelings
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
3.2 · 42 votes · 65 reads
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Virtues
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
3.7 · 5 votes · 90 reads
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Various
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
3.3 · 12 votes · 84 reads
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Feelings
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
4.9 · 32 votes · 20 reads
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Virtues
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
4.5 · 17 votes · 35 reads
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Feelings
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
3.8 · 57 votes · 8 reads
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Various
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.
5.0 · 63 votes · 127 reads
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Time
People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
3.6 · 52 votes · 57 reads
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Nature
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
4.4 · 36 votes · 34 reads
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Time
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
3.2 · 18 votes · 84 reads
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Thought and Reason
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
4.2 · 34 votes · 127 reads
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Time
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
3.1 · 17 votes · 111 reads
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Virtues
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
3.0 · 5 votes · 8 reads
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Various
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
4.9 · 30 votes · 144 reads
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Virtues
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
3.6 · 13 votes · 199 reads
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Various
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
3.7 · 36 votes · 141 reads
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Feelings
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
3.3 · 50 votes · 67 reads
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Time
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.
3.0 · 47 votes · 175 reads
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Thought and Reason
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
4.2 · 24 votes · 36 reads
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Defects
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.
3.3 · 28 votes · 23 reads
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Art and Culture
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
4.7 · 28 votes · 33 reads
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Defects
Stupidity is without anxiety.
3.4 · 7 votes · 39 reads
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Various
Superstition is the poetry of life.
4.2 · 47 votes · 132 reads
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Nature
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
4.2 · 24 votes · 93 reads
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Virtues
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
4.1 · 16 votes · 0 reads
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Feelings
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.
4.7 · 53 votes · 141 reads
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Various
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
4.9 · 46 votes · 82 reads
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Government and Politics
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
5.0 · 5 votes · 140 reads
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Society
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
4.9 · 60 votes · 19 reads
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Defects
The coward threatens when he is safe.
4.9 · 64 votes · 123 reads
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Art and Culture
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
3.3 · 41 votes · 65 reads
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Nature
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
3.4 · 32 votes · 68 reads
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Time
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
4.7 · 40 votes · 80 reads
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Art and Culture
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
3.3 · 32 votes · 7 reads
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