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- Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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