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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.
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.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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.
Happiness Quote
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.
Age Quote
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.
Life Quote
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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