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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Brief author info: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, playwright, novelist.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
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