Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"A clever man commits no minor blunders."	Men, Mistakes
"A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss."	Miscellaneous
"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next."	Life, Love
"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own."	Age, Ignorance, Knowledge
"A man's errors are what make him amiable."	Ability, Men
"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."	Age, Knowledge, Wisdom
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still."	Age, Honesty, Truth
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."	Age, Friends, Life
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."	Change, Experience, Honesty
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, Until they take root in our personal experience."	Change, Experience, Honesty
"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."	Change, Experience, Honesty
"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."	Knowledge, Men, Wisdom
"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."	Adversity, Art, Difficulty
"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."	Age, Friends, Law
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."	Character, Life
"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."	Ability, Character, Excellence
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."	Age, Courage, Men
"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."	Age, Courage, Virtue
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."	Art, Men, Military
"Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life."	Death, Life, Nature
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
Art	Beginnings	Books
Change	Character	Courage
Creativity	Darkness	Death
Desires	Destiny	Destruction
Difficulty	Doubt	Dreams
Education	Evil	Excellence
Experience	Failure	Faith
Fate	Friends	Genius
Goals	Government	Happiness
Help	Honesty	Hope
Humor	Ignorance	Insults
Intelligence	Joy	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Lies
Life	Light	Love
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Music	Nature	Opportunity
Peace	Poetry	Power
Reading	School	Sin
Sleeping	Sorrow	Stupidity
Talent	Teaching	Time
Truth	Virtue	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing
Women	Writing