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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eyes

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man

Right

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness

Talent

Will

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People

Present

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art

Work

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Limitations

Man

Perfection

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First

Man

The little man is still a man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man

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

Nature

Connection

The world remains ever the same.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

World