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A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

"Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 1, 1790.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.162, Ravenio Books

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

"Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, III. 19, October 1797.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “Faust, the First Part: The Text, with English Notes, Essays, and Verse Translations by E. J. Turner ... and E. D. A. Morshead ...”

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3515, Delphi Classics

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”