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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own»
«Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world»
«A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up»
«Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.»
«The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range»
«Live dangerously and you live right.»
«To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.»
«The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.»
«If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.»
«First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.»