Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein read more

A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures
To restless action spurs our fate!
Cursed when for soft, read more

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures
To restless action spurs our fate!
Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures,
He lays for us the pillows straight.