Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it’s yours.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where there are no women there are no good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe