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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#finds #happens #most #own #person

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#better #i #i am #i think #me

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

#before #beside #connection #else #everything

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #greatest #isolate #limit #oneself

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#clearly #laughable #men #more #nothing

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fully #know #learned #themselves

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#higher #nothing #rated #than #value

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#objects #own #pictures #position #should

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#knowing #men #other #self-knowledge

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceived #never #ourselves