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Goals
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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
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Goodness
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Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
-Johann von Goethe
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Government
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Growth
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
-Johann von Goethe
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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Happiness
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
-Johann von Goethe
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
-Johann von Goethe
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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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Hate
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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
-Johann von Goethe
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
-Johann von Goethe
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Health
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
-Johann von Goethe
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Heaven
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Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
-Johann von Goethe
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Help
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Heroes/Heroism
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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History
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Home
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Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
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Honesty
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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
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Hope
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Books by and about Johann von Goethe