"The world of empirical morality consists for..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.”

“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.”

“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.”

“There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.”

“The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.”

“What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!”

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

“A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.”

“Comparison is the death of joy.”