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Famous quotes from the german writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

Famous quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
was a German writer, biologist, pictorial artist, theoretical physicist, and polymath.

“Live dangerously and you live tight.”

“For just when ideals fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”

“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

“All things are only transitory.

“We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.

“Age merely shows what children we remain.

“Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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