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Than Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
- It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
- There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
- Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
- There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
- Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
- Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
- Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
- Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
- I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
- Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
- Precaution is better than cure.
- We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
- For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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