Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

Goethe
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing. - Thiruvalluvar

  2. May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. - Mary MacLane

  3. I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? - Robert A. Heinlein

  4. Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke

  5. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington

More Quotes By Goethe
  1. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

  2. But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.

  3. So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

  4. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

  5. I call architecture 'petrified music'.

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