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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]

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Bears, Reputation, Strolling

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

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Beauty, Virtue, Lasting

And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]

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Stars, Night, Deeds

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

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Evil, Dens, Dies

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fate, Men, Pieces

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

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Running, Equality, Long

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

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Unique, Tolerance, Individual

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flower, Remembrance, Diaries

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Disease, Taught, I Have Learned
Conversations with Goethe Johann Peter Eckermann 17 March (1830).

English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

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Play, Action, Absurd

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

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Nature, Book, Important

Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]

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Success, Winning, Loses

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

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Return, Reincarnation, Certain

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

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Trust, Errors, Distrust

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

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Understanding, Wealth, Rich

What we don't understand we don't possess.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Clarity, Communicate

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

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Art, Noble, Common
"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 61, 1998.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Fear, Lying
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lying, People, Politics

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age, Desire, Youth

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

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Taken, Greatness, Men

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

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Time, Long, Age

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope, Prayer, Saint

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learning, Fortune, Good Fortune

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Anecdotes, World

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