More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
  2. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory wit…
  3. The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings i…
  4. Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still.
  5. One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
  6. Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
  7. The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all et…
  8. Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor! Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.

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