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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Those only obtain love who seek it not.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Only the soul that loves is happy
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love can do much, but duty more.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There are no means of safety against superior qualities of another person but to love him.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There are men who love their like and seek it; others love their opposite and follow after it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Where one day she'll be glimpsed: creature who'll scorch me with love?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrugyou shrug away the warm kiss — Jack Kerouac
Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He who can not learn to love must flatter.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Grant me one hour on love's most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,
Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Think of you! I do not think of you; you are always before my soul.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Here the old man said with a smile: 'Love does not rule, but it trains, and that is more.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A world without love would be no world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We don't get to know anything but what we love.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe