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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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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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