Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Virtues
  • Himself
  • Cardinal

• Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friend
  • Virtues
  • Knew

• You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Violence

• Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Money
  • Enemy
  • Faults

• We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Virtues

• Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Blame

• Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Enemies
  • Friendships
  • Situations

• Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

  

  Eliza Haywood
  • Virtues
  • Repetition
  • Possest

• if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Kids
  • Soccer
  • Faults

• Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Christian
  • Faults
  • Beads

• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

  

  Aristotle
  • Persons
  • Virtues
  • Useful

• Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Courage
  • Possible
  • Virtues

• Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Moral
  • Greatness

• Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Habit

• Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• One is punished best for one's virtues.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtues
  • Punished

• It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hard
  • Virtues
  • Distinction

• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  

  Confucius
  • Fear
  • Faults
  • Abandon

• You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faults
  • Virtues
  • Don't Love

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

  

  Susan Sullivan
  • Comedy
  • Gift
  • Dramatic

• Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faults
  • Virtues
  • Self-Love