Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Funny
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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