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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  1. The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery? – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  5. Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  6. The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone! – 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. What you feed in yourself that grows. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. 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
  17. Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  18. The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  19. 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
  20. Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  21. We are all pilgrims who seek Italy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  22. Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  23. 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
  24. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  25. If I wasn’t a devil myself I’d give Me up to the Devil this very minute. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  26. Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  27. Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  28. 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
  29. Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  30. Each one sees what he carries in his heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  31. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  32. Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  33. There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  34. Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  35. There is strong shadow where there is much light. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  36. Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  37. In all things it is better to hope than to despair. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  38. Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  39. It’s in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  40. On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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