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Biography - Vincent Willem van Gogh:

Dutch painter .
Born: 1853 - Died: 1890
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Netherlands
Netherlands

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.


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French
Il est bon d'aimer autant que l'on peut, car c'est là que gît la vraie force, et celui qui aime beaucoup accomplit de grandes choses et en est capable, et ce qui se fait par amour est bien fait.

German
Man soll lieben, soviel man kann, und darin liegt die wahre Stärke, und wer viel liebt, der tut auch viel und vermag viel, und was in Liebe getan wird, das wird gut getan.




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Quotes for: love


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Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: strength


Quotes

Quotes about strength:


Consciousness of our powers augments them.





I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.





...and nobody knows the extent of his strength until he has tried.





There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.





Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.











Quotes for: good


Quotes

Quotes for: good


The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.





Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.





To do good needs no consideration.





The best is the enemy of good.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.











Quotes

Quotes for: greatness


The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.





The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.





There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.





All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.





The price of greatness is responsibility.











Quotes

Vincent Willem van Gogh also said...


Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





One must never let the fire go out in one's soul but keep it burning.





The best way to know God is to love many things.





Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together;












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