I am always for a rigid adherence to a law, especially at a time like ours, when out of weakness and excessive liberality one is always conceding too much.


Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann (1836)


I am always for a rigid adherence to a law, especially at a time like ours, when out of weakness and excessive liberality one is always conceding too ...

I am always for a rigid adherence to a law, especially at a time like ours, when out of weakness and excessive liberality one is always conceding too ...

I am always for a rigid adherence to a law, especially at a time like ours, when out of weakness and excessive liberality one is always conceding too ...

I am always for a rigid adherence to a law, especially at a time like ours, when out of weakness and excessive liberality one is always conceding too ...