Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th...
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.