“When we lack ourselves, we lack everything.”

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 – 1832

German poet and polymath, author of "Faust".

“Youth is intoxication without wine.”

“But what is your duty? What the day demands.”

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

“To thine own self be true.”

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“Become who you are.”

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

“Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary?"”