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“On all the peaks lies peace.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Precaution is better than cure.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The little man is still a man.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The unnatural, that too is natural.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The world remains ever the same.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To create something you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Superstition is the poetry of life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The human mind will not be confined to any limits.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
