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Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 41-80
41 The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
42 The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
43 We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
44 We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
45 There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
46 It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
47 Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
48 A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
49 I call architecture frozen music.
50 He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
51 I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
52 If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
53 Life is the childhood of our immortality.
54 Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
55 Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
56 Superstition is the poetry of life.
57 The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
58 The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
59 The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
60 To create something you must be something.
61 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
62 A useless life is an early death.
63 What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
64 We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
65 Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
66 To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
67 Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
68 One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
69 Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
70 In art the best is good enough.
71 In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
72 Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
73 If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
74 If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
75 It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
76 Love can do much, but duty more.
77 Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
78 Precaution is better than cure.
79 Personality is everything in art and poetry.
80 Live dangerously and you live right.
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