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Saturday, March 11, 2023

Maxims of Goethe 2


How can a man come to know himself? 

Never by thinking, but by doing. 

Try to do your duty, and you will know at once what you are worth. 

But what is your duty? 

The claims of the day. 

IMAGE: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1787) 



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