Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
“This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us”
“Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
“He who moves not forward, goes backward”
“Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous.”
“Everyone hears only what he understands.”
“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”
“A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.”
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”
“Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.”