Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann WolfgangGoethetə/; German: ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1749
CountryGermany
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.