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Many Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
- To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
- How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
- One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
- As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
- The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
- The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially…
- How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
- Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
- Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
- People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of…
- Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so…
- Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their…
- Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
- How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?
- In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could…
- For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
- They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
- I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions…
- Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
- The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but…
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- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
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