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Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 121-160
121 A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
122 All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
123 Age merely shows what children we remain.
124 Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
125 Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
126 Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
127 If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
128 Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
129 Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
130 On all the peaks lies peace.
131 Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
132 The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
133 There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
134 I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
135 Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
136 What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
137 Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
138 The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
139 It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
140 If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
141 Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
142 A person hears only what they understand.
143 Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
144 Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
145 Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
146 Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
147 Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
148 He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
149 A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
150 What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
151 The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
152 Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
153 If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
154 Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
155 Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
156 Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
157 All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
158 We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
159 Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
160 Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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