If you enjoy Goethe, have a read of La Rochefoucauld's maxims which preceded Goethe by a century. "Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use

If you enjoy Goethe, have a read of La Rochefoucauld's maxims which preceded Goethe by a century. "Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."