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You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
By Johann von Goethe
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
By Johann von Goethe
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression. With yellow the eye rejoices, the heart expands, the spirit is cheered and we immediately feel warmed. Many people feel an inclination to laugh when looking through a yellow glass.
By Johann von Goethe
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
By Johann von Goethe
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
By Johann von Goethe
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
By Johann von Goethe
Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
By Johann von Goethe
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
By Johann von Goethe
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
By Johann von Goethe
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
By Johann von Goethe
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
By Johann von Goethe
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, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
By Johann von Goethe
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
By Johann von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
By Johann von Goethe
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose
By Johann von Goethe
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
By Johann von Goethe
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
By Johann von Goethe
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
By Johann von Goethe
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
By Johann von Goethe
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
By Johann von Goethe
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.
By Johann von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
By Johann von Goethe