Tag: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe