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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#character #laugh #more #nothing #people

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#crooked #never #path #reached #straight

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. ↗

— 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

#culture #goal #highest #means #mind

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#opportunity #talk #well #whenever #you

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

#behavior #courtesy #heart #love #outward

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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