Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe