More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
  2. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
  3. To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
  4. We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the mos…
  5. Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
  6. What one knows, one sees.
  7. There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
  8. When a man stops to ponder his physical or moral condition, he generally finds he is ill.

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