For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than...

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than...

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.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion,...

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion,...

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your...

If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your...

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny....

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny....

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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...

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.