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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2889 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

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

[aphorist] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in [category] Vice and Virtue and [category] Work and Recreation

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (771 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.

[aphorist] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2767 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.

[aphorist] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (769 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

[aphorist] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (846 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

[aphorist] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in [category] Life and Death

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (777 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

[aphorist] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (723 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

[aphorist] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in [category] Success and Failure

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