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1  Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

2  Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

3  Every step of life shows much caution is required.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

4  If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

5  What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

6  There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

7  Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

8  He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

9  All things are only transitory.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

10  If I love you, what business is it of yours?
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

11  He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

12  I love those who yearn for the impossible.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

13  For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

14  A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

15  As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

16  Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

17  It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

18  Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

19  Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

20  The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

21  Wisdom is found only in truth.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

22  We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

23  There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

24  One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

25  Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

26  Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

27  Common sense is the genius of humanity.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

28  Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

29  Few people have the imagination for reality.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

30  Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

31  Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

32  Mastery passes often for egotism.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

33  None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

34  One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

35  The little man is still a man.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

36  The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

37  Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

38  Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

39  The world remains ever the same.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

40  The coward only threatens when he is safe.
   [JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE]

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