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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.

“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”

“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

“I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say is true.”

“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

“Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

“to appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

“I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

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