Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About True Love

• Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Philosophy

  "'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

• This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

• To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Self, Majority

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