Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.


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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of o...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they of...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirk...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to d...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that b...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously t...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies ...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Stupidity is without anxiety.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
JOHANN VON GOETHE
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to e...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificin...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
JOHANN G. SEUME
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER