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...

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...

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...

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...