The deed is all, the glory nothing.

Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust

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Accomplishment Glory

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Faust

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Faust

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

German

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Writer

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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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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us even in silence-this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

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Therese

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1786 1780s 18th century
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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]. Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1785-1786, bk. 7, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship." Goethe: The Collected Works, edited and translated by Eric A. Blackall. Vol. 9, Princeton University Press, 1995, bk. 7, ch. 5.

Another quote from the 1830s

No human creature can give orders to love.

George Sand

Jacques

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Nature of love

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

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

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Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
The Antichrist
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1895 1890s 19th century
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 23.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 23.