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Excellence
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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Fame
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
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Fate & Destiny
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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Fear
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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Feelings
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Flattery
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Fools, Foolishness
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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Forgiveness
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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Fortune
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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
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Freedom
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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Only law can give us freedom.
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Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
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Friends
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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Generosity
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Giving is the business of the rich.
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Genius
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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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Goals
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
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Books by and about Johann von Goethe