Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Society
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
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Once a man's thirty, he's already old, He is indeed as good as dead. It's best to kill him right away.
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Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tatige Unwissenheit.
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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.