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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe