“Only a man who is at one with the world can be at one with himself.”

Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 130

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Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.

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