Tag: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An unused life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To create something you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe