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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Did you know about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

His conversations and various common undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander von Humboldt Wilhelm von Humboldt and August and Friedrich Schlegel have in later years been collectively termed Weimar Classicism. After returning from a tour of Italy in 1788 Goethe publiJohann Wolfgang von Goethed his first major work of a scientific nature the Metamorphosis of Plants. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement named for a play by his childhood friend Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.

Goethe's poems were set to music throughout the nineteenth century by a number of composers including Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn ˈɡøːtə] ([Image] listen) 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer artist and politician.

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