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“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The coward only threatens when he is safe.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A useless life is an early death.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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
“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
