Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Quote

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds; few of their heroines are happily disposed of.


Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things (ed. 1800)


Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way...

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way...

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way...

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way...