Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bears Quotations

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

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]