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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

~ Goethe

Goethe Ability Achievement

So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

~ Goethe

Goethe Aging Old Age

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

~ Goethe

Goethe Architects Architecture

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

~ Goethe

Goethe Books Reading

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

~ Goethe

Goethe Bores Boredom

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

~ Goethe

Goethe Character Personality

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.

~ Goethe

Goethe Children Childhood

Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.

~ Goethe

Goethe Children Childhood

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.

~ Goethe

Goethe Enjoyment Pleasure

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

~ Goethe

Goethe Friends Friendship

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

~ Goethe

Goethe Goals Ambition

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

~ Goethe

Goethe Heroes Heroism

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

~ Goethe

Goethe Human Relations

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

~ Goethe

Goethe Human Relations

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

~ Goethe

Goethe Medicine Sickness

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

~ Goethe

Goethe Mistakes Blunders

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

~ Goethe

Goethe Politeness Manners

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

~ Goethe

Goethe Secrets Secrecy

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

~ Goethe

Goethe Self Self Knowledge

Who does not know another language does not know his own.

~ Goethe

Goethe Words Language

When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.

~ Goethe

Goethe Words Language

Everyone hears only what he understands.

~ Goethe

Goethe Words Language
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