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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.»
«The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.»
«A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.»
«A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.»
«Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.»
«When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie»
«I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.»
«A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others»
«We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden»
«If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick»