“Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

German polymath and writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Goethe is best known for his novel *The Sorrows of Young Werther*, which became a defining work of Sturm und Drang. His later masterpiece, *Faust*, remains a cornerstone of world literature, exploring human ambition and the search for meaning.