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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  2. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  6. nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  8. Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  9. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  11. Colors are light’s suffering and joy – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  12. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  13. For in music there is no material to be deducted. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  14. To end the greatest work designed,A thousand hands need but one mind. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  15. Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  17. We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  18. Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  19. Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  20. We are all pilgrims who seek Italy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  22. By Fortune’s adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  23. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  24. If I wasn’t a devil myself I’d give Me up to the Devil this very minute. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  25. Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  26. Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  27. Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  28. Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  29. Each one sees what he carries in his heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  30. Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  31. Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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  35. There is strong shadow where there is much light. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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