The less we love her when we woo her,The more we draw a woman in,
He who has lived and thought can’t helpdespising people in his soul;him who has felt disturbs the ghost of irrecoverable days;for him there are no more enchantments;him does the snake of memories,him does repentance bite.
Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you…
He who has lived and thought can’t helpdespising people in his soul;him who has felt disturbs the ghost of irrecoverable days;for him there are no more enchantments;him does the snake of memories, him does repentance bite.
Thus heaven’s gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.
Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
But flaming youth in all it’s madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It’s loves and hates, its joys and sadness,Are babbled out and soon revealed.
Please never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.