Famous quotes containing the words grosser and/or von:
“The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. Try to do your duty, and you will know right away what you are like.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)