Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann WolfgangGoethetə/; German: ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1749
CountryGermany
The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.