If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.


Johann von Goethe

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to...
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn wh...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resourc...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Only law can give us freedom.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which i...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every offense is avenged on earth.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent....
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and pers...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Superstition is the poetry of life.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The people rate strength before everything.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselve...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they en...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I do not now begin,--I still adore
Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast;
Then once again ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
JOHANN VON GOETHE