The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Maxims of Goethe 9


Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. 

We should thus have the advantage of setting right what is wrong, and restoring what is destroyed. 

IMAGE: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Mendelssohn plays to Goethe in 1830 (1864) 



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