The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Maxims of Goethe 26


Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquillity of soul. 
 
Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites. 

IMAGE: Giovanni di Paolo, The Sermon of the Hypocritical Priest (c. 1450) 



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