Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"A man's errors are what make him amiable."	Ability, Men
"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."	Art, Excellence, Hope
"Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life."	Death, Life, Nature
"I call architecture frozen music."	Music
"The ground that a good man treads is hallowed."	Evil, Men, Reading
"Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny."	Destiny, Fate, Government
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Age, Dreams, Genius
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, Until they take root in our personal experience."	Change, Experience, Honesty
"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."	Age, Ambition, Desires
"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him."	Excellence, Love
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."	Ability, Help
"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."	Ability, Age, Evil
"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."	Adversity, Difficulty, Monarchy
"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."	Miscellaneous
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."	Character, Life
"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."	Intelligence, Men
"If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."	Miscellaneous
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words."	Ability, Evil, Poetry
"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."	Genius, Honesty, Love
"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."	Character, Humor, Laughter
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
Art	Beginnings	Books
Change	Character	Courage
Creativity	Darkness	Death
Desires	Destiny	Destruction
Difficulty	Doubt	Dreams
Education	Evil	Excellence
Experience	Failure	Faith
Fate	Friends	Genius
Goals	Government	Happiness
Help	Honesty	Hope
Humor	Ignorance	Insults
Intelligence	Joy	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Lies
Life	Light	Love
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Music	Nature	Opportunity
Peace	Poetry	Power
Reading	School	Sin
Sleeping	Sorrow	Stupidity
Talent	Teaching	Time
Truth	Virtue	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing
Women	Writing