Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"On all the peaks lies peace."

"Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days."

"How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!"

"Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it."

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."

"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness."

"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."

"Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though."

"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer."

"Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)."