German - Poet | August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
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To create something you must be something.
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The unnatural, that too is natural.
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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
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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!
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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