Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThese auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe