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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different»
«Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction»
«Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.»
«Correction does much, but encouragement does more.»
«We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself»
«Nothing is true, but that which is simple.»
«This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.»
«Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.»
«Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.»
«Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.»