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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe