Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEnergy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAll intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe