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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial»
«The man of understanding finds everything laughable»
«Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.»
«On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.»
«A purpose you impart is no longer your own.»
«For all guilt is punished on earth.»
«What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.»
«The deed is everything, the glory is naught.»
«No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.»
«I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.»