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Maxims and Reflections

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Bailey Saunders

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Late in life Goethe compressed what he knew into single sentences. Bailey Saunders translated the maxims and reflections and arranged them by theme, life and character, literature and art, science, each one a finished thought you can carry all day. The 1906 Macmillan text with the translator's preface intact. One of the most complete minds in Europe, reduced to essence. Take three before breakfast.

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22 chapters

  1. 1THE MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS
  2. 2OF
  3. 3GOETHE
  4. 4TRANSLATED BY BAILEY SAUNDERS
  5. 5WITH A PREFACE NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1906
  6. 6CONTENTS
  7. 7TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
  8. 8I
  9. 9II
  10. 10III
  11. 11LIFE AND CHARACTER
  12. 12I
  13. 13II
  14. 14III
  15. 15IV
  16. 16V
  17. 17VI
  18. 18VII

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