“You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.”
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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.”
“What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.”
“If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.”
“If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.”
“If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.”
“If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.”
“If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.”
“If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.”
“If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.”
“That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.”
“Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.”
“If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.”
“If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.”
“Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Source: Goethe : [selected Verse]