Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.”
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
“People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.”
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
“When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.”
“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”
“He who moves not forward, goes backward”