“Men who give way easily to tears are good. I have nothing to do with those who hearts are dry and who eyes are dry!”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, book Elective Affinities

Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
Bk. I, Ch. 18, R. J. Hollingdale, trans. (1971), p. 147
Elective Affinities (1809)

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