Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Am I a god? I see so clearly!

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

A true German can't stand the French,Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?