Quoting: Goethe (1749-1832)

[onomatopoeias]

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live dangerously and you live right.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe