Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, CC BY-SA 4.0
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, CC BY-SA 4.0
So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, CC BY-SA 4.0
I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, CC BY-SA 4.0
One lives but once in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, CC BY-SA 4.0
Getting along with women, <br> Knocking around with men, <br> Having more credit than money, <br> Thus one goes through the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Nationalities: Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Cause of death: myocardial infarction
Languages: German
Years active: 1766–1832
Genres: lyric poetry, drama, tragedy
Notable works: Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, Prometheus, Theory of Colours, Italian Journey, West–Eastern Diwan, Egmont, Der Zauberlehrling, Der Erlkönig, Maxims and reflections of Goethe
Education: Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg