Wolfgang Goethe Quotes (26 Quotes)


    Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

    It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.



    A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.


    Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

    Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

    Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.


    What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

    I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

    It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

    The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

    One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

    We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

    Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

    People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

    One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.






    In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.


    Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.


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