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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'


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JOHANN VON GOETHE If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
JOHANN G. SEUME Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy canno...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behin...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward ten...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees ot...
JOHANN VON GOETHE No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
JOHANN VON GOETHE No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the considerati...
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
JOHANN VON GOETHE To create something you must be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
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