Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Prudence

• Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Students, Prudence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.65

• Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Prudent, Results

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.166, Ravenio Books

• I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Unrequited Love, Cherish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.285

• He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Feet, Doe, Prudence

• Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Limits, Use

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