There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own...

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own...

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it...

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it...

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all...

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all...

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can...

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can...

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Without haste, but without rest.

Without haste, but without rest.

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...

Love can do much, but duty more.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Tomorrow the sun will also rise to the occasion of another day with equal grandeur....

Tomorrow the sun will also rise to the occasion of another day with equal grandeur....

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must...

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must...

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

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

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...

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that...

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that...