Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

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