Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is. [Select]

{Categories: Vice and Virtue, Work and Recreation}

I do not know myself and God forbid that I should. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

Life is the childhood of our immortality. [Select]

{Category: Life and Death}

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. [Select]

{Category: Love and Hate}

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

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