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“Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everything is hard before it is easy”
― Goethe J.W.

“Leap and the net will appear.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Remember to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
― Goethe

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen

“The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.”
― Goethe

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.”
― Goethe

“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Was ich weiß, kann jeder wissen. Mein Herz hab' ich allein.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“He who moves not forward, goes backward.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Rest not 
Life is sweeping by 
go and dare before you die. 
Something mighty and sublime, 
leave behind to conquer time.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do not hurry; do not rest.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint! Und das mit Recht; denn alles, was entsteht, ist wert, dass es zugrunde geht.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Auch aus Steinen die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man schöne Dinge bauen.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Aber ich habe sie gehabt, ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große Seele, in deren Gegenwart ich mir schien mehr zu sein, als ich war, weil ich alles war, was ich sein konnte.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther

“More light!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mußte denn das so sein, daß das, was des Menschen Glückseligkeit macht,
wieder die Quelle seines Elendes würde?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe