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Maxims and Reflections

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

17 chapters, about 32,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. I 1,500 words
2. II 1,700 words
3. III 8,100 words
4. 23 1,000 words
5. 49 2,600 words
6. 155 500 words
7. 174 600 words
8. 198 700 words
9. 219 1,000 words
10. 243 2,000 words
11. 317 1,700 words
12. 377 400 words
13. 390 6,100 words
14. 552 600 words
15. 565 1,000 words
16. NATURE: APHORISMS 1,000 words
17. INDEX 1,500 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Maxim (philosophy)
• Tradition

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