87 quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Character develops itself in the stream of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Love can do much, but duty more.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Wisdom is found only in truth.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Few people have the imagination for reality.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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