A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCourage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheโIt has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe