Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arou

Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veile — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original.

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This is why we may say that those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostl — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gen — Sigmund Freud
Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion. — Francis Bacon
Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur. — There is said to be hope for a sick man
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is — Swami Vivekananda
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the — Kahlil Gibran
It requires moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. — Søren Kierkegaard
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. — Francis Bacon