The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret (ed. 1850)
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret (ed. 1850)