Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe