Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself; it is a child of solitude.
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
Do not hurry; do not rest.
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
He who moves not forward, goes backward.
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.