~ 1749 - 1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a renowned German writer, scientist, and statesman. He is best known for his works such as "Faust," "The Sorrows of Young Werther," and "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," which have had a lasting impact on German literature. Goethe's diverse talents and intellectual pursuits made him a key figure of the Weimar Classicism movement.
If you’ve never eaten while crying, you don’t know what life tastes like.
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Love can do much, but duty more.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Live each day as if your life had just begun.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same.
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.