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Better Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
- There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
- To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
- Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
- 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…
- He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
- Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.
- It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
- I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
- Precaution is better than cure.
- Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
- It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
- I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus…
- Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
- There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the…
- When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in…
- The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish…
- We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
- It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.
- There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art
- In all things it is better to hope than to despair
- If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better.
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