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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Category: Adversity Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Category: Art Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
Category: Attitude Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Category: Birds Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every second is of infinite value.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Category: Conformity Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
Category: Dancing Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Category: Genius Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Category: Health Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
Category: History Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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History is a mixture of error and violence.
Category: History Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Category: Home Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Category: Language Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
Category: Life Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.
Category: Light Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
Category: Live Now Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Category: Love Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.
Category: Marriage Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
Category: Men Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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