We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.


Elective Affinities: A Novel (ed. 1872)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the...

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the...

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the...

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the...