It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTruth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe