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Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vanity, Envy, Feelings

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oratory, Succeed, Delivery

Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Names, People

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Giving, Solitude

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doe, Language, Knows

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ocean, Sea, Land
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.380

Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Animal, Evolution, Ends

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Suffering, Coward
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.23, 谷月社

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Bird, Temptation

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Feet, Doe, Prudence

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Destiny, People, Wells
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.63, Penguin

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gone, Moral
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.76, Library of Alexandria

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Science, Art And Science

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ambition, Wings, And Love

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Simple, Simplicity

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Action

Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hypocrite, Mean, Soul
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3516, Delphi Classics

The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Powerful, Today, Deities

The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Women, Feminine, Draws

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Form

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Errors, Grace

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Law, Suffering, World

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Plant, Direct, Ifs

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Issues, Form

A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wine, Drink

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