"No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in German literature. Born in Frankfurt on 1749-08-28, he wrote works including Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther. He died in Weimar on 1832-03-22.