Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness. — 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
I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time. — 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
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