What did Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mean by: Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany Copy
+ Still this planet’s soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Achievement, Environment, Opportunity, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany
+ Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune’s always here. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fortune, Opportunity, Presence, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany
+ Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. Author, October 12, 2023January 2, 2025, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goodness, Silence, Sin, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany
+ Don’t give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Certainty, Doubt, Support, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany
+ Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Conviction, Fatherhood, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany
+ That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Inheritance, Ownership, Renewal, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany
+ Doubt grows with knowledge. Read explanation Author, April 20, 2023December 25, 2024, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Growth, Knowledge, Uncertainty, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany
+ Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ignorance, Language, Self-awareness, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
