Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quote: Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what t…

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

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He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.