Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority