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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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For what every man wishes,
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UNKNOWN He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me
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SUNDAY ADELAJA He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
LAO TZU He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where there are no women there are no good manners
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the mome...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everyone hears only what he understands.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. [G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The society of women is the element of good manners.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Each one sees what he carries in his heart
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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