“You’ve only got to grow old to be more lenient; I see no fault committed of which I too haven’t been guilty.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
Maxim 240, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

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Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.

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