More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
  2. To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
  3. The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, …
  4. To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
  5. The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
  6. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
  7. The man is born with a talent which he has meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
  8. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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