1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Mistakes]


A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Proverbs]


A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Creativity]


A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Goals]


A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Revolutions and Revolutionaries]


A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Scholars and Scholarship]


A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Justice]


A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Retirement]


A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Listening]


A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Happiness]


A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Self-esteem]


A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Purpose]


A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Talent]


A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Death and Dying]


Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Age and Aging]


All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Aristocracy]


All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Emotions]


All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Thoughts and Thinking]


Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Deeds and Good Deeds]


Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – [Quotations]

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