Quotes by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self t >>

Personality is everything in art and poetry. >>

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes fa >>

Quotations about Envy

Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus] >>

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. >>

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. >>

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von