Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"I love those who yearn for the impossible."	Love, Time
"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"	Love, Sin
"This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us."	Honesty, Lies, Love
"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."	Ability, Knowledge, Men
"He who seizes the [right] moment is the right man."	Men
"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before."	Creativity, Writing
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."	Ability, Character, Life
"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."	Change, Experience, Honesty
"The unnatural, that too is natural."	Miscellaneous
"To live as one likes is plebian; the noble man aspires to order and law."	Law, Life, Men
"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."	Art, Destruction, Evil
"The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks."	Men
"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity."	Miscellaneous
"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Age
"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."	Ignorance
"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own."	Age, Ignorance, Knowledge
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."	Intelligence, Men
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Excellence
"Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."	Love, Men, Monarchy
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Experience	Failure	Faith
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Sleeping	Sorrow	Stupidity
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