“He that never had sorrow of love never had joy of it either!”

— Gottfried von Straßburg, book Tristan

Swem nie von liebe leit geschach,
dem geschach ouch liep von liebe nie.
Source: Tristan, Line 204

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medieval German poet 1180–1215

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