Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
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Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
He only earns his freedom and existence
Who daily conquers them anew.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft read more

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen
verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.