Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.