“Virtue is reason which has become energy.”

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.
“Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #23

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