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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The little man is still a man. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The human mind will not be confined to any limits. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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