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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Maxims of Goethe 6


Every man must think after his own fashion; for on his own path he finds a truth, or a kind of truth, which helps him through life. 

But he must not give himself the rein; he must control himself; mere naked instinct does not become him. 

Unqualified activity, of whatever kind, leads at last to bankruptcy. 

IMAGE: Angelica Kauffmann, Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1787) 



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