There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDo not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe