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• All things are only transitory. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
• Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
  -- Johann von Goethe...
• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes.
  The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims....
• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows.
  I have guesses enough of my own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...