Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

A book is a storehouse carried in the pocket

A book is a storehouse carried in the pocket

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

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

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

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

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

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the...

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the...

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The real terror of beholding sharks feeding is that that may be all there is...

The real terror of beholding sharks feeding is that that may be all there is...

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned...

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned...

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will...

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will...

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against...

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against...