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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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A clever man commits no minor blunders.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#clever #clever man #commits #man #minor

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#answer #correct #kiss #like

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#instructed #only #society #solitude

A useless life is an early death.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#early #life #useless

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#grow #nobody #somebody #wants

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#ignorance #more #nothing #see #terrible

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#anything #everything #finds #hardly #intelligent

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#hide #keep #must #possesses #secret






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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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