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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

1749–1832

60 quotes, most often on Love, Art and Talking. Part of the Poets collection.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Happiness
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ‘twere his own.
“Distichs” in The Poems of Goethe (1853) as translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring
- Happiness
A thinking man’s greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 1207, trans. Stopp (p153)
- Happiness
- Thinking
When thus I hail the Moment flying:
“Ah, still delay⁠—thou art so fair!”
Then bind me in thy bonds undying,
My final ruin then declare!
Faust (1808), Scene IV, spoken by FaustIn context
- Happiness
- Time

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