The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.