Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Greatest Quotations

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.