The deed is all, the glory nothing.

Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Topic

Accomplishment Glory

Speaker

Faust

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Faust

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wofgang. Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil [Faust. The Tragedy's Second Part]. 1832, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust: Part 2, translated by David Luke. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 1.

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If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Topic
Nature of man

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Medium
Novel
Genre
Epistolary novel
Language
German
Time
1774 1770s 18th century
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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther]. Leipzig: Weygand'sche Buchhandlung, 1774.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Sorrows of Young Werther." The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, translated by Catherin Hutter. Signet, 2013.

Another quote from the 1830s

No human creature can give orders to love.

George Sand

Jacques

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Topic
Nature of love

Author

George Sand
Source
Jacques
Medium
Novel
Language
French
Time
1834 1830s 19th century
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Citation

Sand, George. Jacques. 1833, ch. 81.

Another quote originally in German

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

Albert Schweitzer

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Topic
Interconnectedness of all people

Author

Albert Schweitzer
Source
Memoirs of Childhood and Youth
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
German
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

Schweitzer, Albert. Aus Meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit [Memoirs of Childhood and Youth]. C. H. Beck, 1924.

Current Citation

Scweitzer, Albert. Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, translated by Kurt Bergel and Alice R. Bergel. Syracuse University Press, 1997.