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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Wisdom is found only in truth.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Common sense is the genius of humanity.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Did you know about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

His conversations and various common undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander von Humboldt Wilhelm von Humboldt and August and Friedrich Schlegel have in later years been collectively termed Weimar Classicism. After returning from a tour of Italy in 1788 Goethe publiJohann Wolfgang von Goethed his first major work of a scientific nature the Metamorphosis of Plants. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement named for a play by his childhood friend Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.

Goethe's poems were set to music throughout the nineteenth century by a number of composers including Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn ˈɡøːtə] ([Image] listen) 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer artist and politician.

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