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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.»
«Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.»
«If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.»
«It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united»
«We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.»
«Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.»
«Love can do much, but duty more.»
«In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.»
«We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.»
«The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.»