Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDo you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEveryone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBut who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe