Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; no, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.