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- Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The society of women is the element of good manners.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- What is not fully understood is not possessed.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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