Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Tag: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.