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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves»
«One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.»
«You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer»
«Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life»
«Stupidity is without anxiety.»
«There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.»
«He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.»
«By seeking and blundering we learn.»
«It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.»
«Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.»