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The Sorrows of Young Werther

Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 4 quotes · Love, Sorrow, Happiness

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“آخ، چیست آدمی، این نیمه خدای ستوده! آیا طاقتش درست آن زمانی طی نمی شود که بیش از همه به آن احتیاج دارد؟ و آیا آن وقتی که بر بال شادی اوج می گیرد، یا در غرقاب غم فرو می رود، در این هر دو حس درست زمانی باز نمی ماند و به شهود و آگاهی دلگیر و سرد خود باز پس رانده نمی شود که شوق گم شدن در این سرشاری بی انتها در جانش دویده است؟”

“That is quite another thing," said Albert; "because a man under the influence of violent passion loses all power of reflection, and is regarded as intoxicated or insane." "Oh! you people of sound understandings," I replied, smiling, "are ever ready to exclaim 'Extravagance, and madness, and intoxication!' You moral men are so calm and so subdued! You abhor the drunken man, and detest the extravagant; you pass by, like the Levite, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that you are not like one of them. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. And in private life, too, is it not intolerable that no one can undertake the execution of a noble or generous deed, without giving rise to the exclamation that the doer is intoxicated or mad? Shame upon you, ye sages!”