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Best Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
- You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.
- Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best…
- Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
- The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
- It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to…
- The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
- Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
- The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
- Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the…
- Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
- Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern…
- The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
- In comradeship is danger countered best.
- Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
- The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
- To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best…
- Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day,…
- The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
- One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
- How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best,…
- You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me…
- It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
- In art, the best is good enough.
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- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
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- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
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