Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - It is the strange fate of...
Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
See also...
Quotes for: evil
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Quotes about fear:
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
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