Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Character
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A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny - that which we call character - but rather improving it and enhancing it as far as possible.