A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them;… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man errs as long as he strives. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
![“Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2a3/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_age_age-childish-makes-they-say-but-tis-not_1851271.jpg)
![“Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ca8/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_fate_man-be-he-who-he-may-experiences-a-last_147865.jpg)
