We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power… — 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 Image
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 Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
