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Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.


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JOHANN VON GOETHE If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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