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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Long, Mind

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, Rushing, Talent

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe, Able, Language

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Heart, Sick
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.7, Princeton University Press

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Destiny, Men, Reason
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.57, e-artnow

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People, Faults, Impatient
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1868). “Novels and Tales by Goethe”, p.141

The people rate strength before everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strength, People, Rate

Time flies, and what is past is done.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Past, Time Flies, Done

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Errors, Oneself
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.53, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People, World, May
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Found, Knows
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1932). “Goethe's poems and aphorisms”

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Political, Riches, Spirit

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Justice, Done, May
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.132, Ravenio Books

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God, Powerful, Omnipotence

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hero, Men, Stamps
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.114

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Punishment, Difficult, Happens
"Wilhelm Meister's Travels". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1829.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fancy, Poet, Produce

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passion, Virtue, Defects
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self, Giving, Accountability

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Opportunity, Life Is

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time, Circles, Debtors
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.760, Delphi Classics

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mean, Men, Fighter
"West-östlicher Diwan". Buch des Paradies, 1819.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Morning, Mind, Fool

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Opportunity, Absence, Wells

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Can Not

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