Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us live, while we are alive!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live dangerously and you live right.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man’s restlessness makes him strive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe