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Wells Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested…
- He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
- To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
- Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
- Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in…
- The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise…
- It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or…
- It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The…
- Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I…
- The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong…
- Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
- He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
- For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
- I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
- Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
- One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
- Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
- Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
- We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him…
- Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
- Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight…
- Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my…
- Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
- Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong