443 Quotations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 421. When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

- 422. When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

- 423. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

- 424. When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were wh ...

- 425. When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him bet ...

- 426. Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to ...

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

- 428. Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.

- 429. Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning ...

- 430. Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, ...

- 431. While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

- 432. Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

- 433. Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, eve ...

- 434. Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happen ...

- 435. Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

- 436. Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

- 437. Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably dece ...

- 438. Wisdom is found only in truth.

- 439. Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to ...

- 440. Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper ...

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