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Which Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
- There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
- Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
- Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
- Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
- A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
- In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
- To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
- Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
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