German - Poet | August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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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.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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