More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. 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…
  2. When a man stops to ponder his physical or moral condition, he generally finds he is ill.
  3. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
  4. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
  5. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
  6. Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's…
  7. To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
  8. You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

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