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| Christoph Martin Wieland
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift. I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]
Man blindly works the will of fate.
[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]
Oft have I thought--jabber as he will, how learned soever, man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience!
The compulsion of fate is bitter.
[Ger., Des Schiksals Swang ist bitter.]
Thou mockest? Tremble! the avenger's lightning bolts do not forever dormant lie.
[Ger., Du spottest noch? Erzittre! Immer schlafen
Des Rachers Blitze nicht.]
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
[Ger., Zu oft ist kurze Lust die Quelle langer Schmerzen!]
What is the world to him now? a vast and vacant space, for fortune's wheel to roll about at will.
[Ger., Was ist ihm nun die Welt? ein weiter leerer Raum,
Fortunen's Spielraum, frei ihr Rad herum zu rollen.]
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