Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

He who thinks to realize when he is older the hopes and desires of youth is always deceiving himself, for every decade of a man's life possesses its own kind of happiness, its own hopes and prospects.


Elective Affinities (1809) pt. 2, ch. 12


He who thinks to realize when he is older the hopes and desires of youth is always deceiving himself, for every decade of a man's life possesses its...

He who thinks to realize when he is older the hopes and desires of youth is always deceiving himself, for every decade of a man's life possesses its...

He who thinks to realize when he is older the hopes and desires of youth is always deceiving himself, for every decade of a man's life possesses its...

He who thinks to realize when he is older the hopes and desires of youth is always deceiving himself, for every decade of a man's life possesses its...