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Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1-40
1 Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
2 Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
3 Every step of life shows much caution is required.
4 If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
5 What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
6 There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
7 Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
8 He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
9 All things are only transitory.
10 If I love you, what business is it of yours?
11 He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
12 I love those who yearn for the impossible.
13 For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
14 A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
15 As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
16 Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
17 It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
18 Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
19 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
20 The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
21 Wisdom is found only in truth.
22 We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
23 There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
24 One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
25 Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
26 Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
27 Common sense is the genius of humanity.
28 Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
29 Few people have the imagination for reality.
30 Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
31 Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
32 Mastery passes often for egotism.
33 None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
34 One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
35 The little man is still a man.
36 The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
37 Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
38 Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
39 The world remains ever the same.
40 The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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