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Man

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vices

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Home

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Business

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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