Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faults Quotations

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.