Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
In the original German
Das Leben lehrt uns, weniger mit uns und andern strenge sein; du lernst es auch.
Iphigenia in Tauris · 1787
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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Iphigenia in Tauris." Goethe: The Collected Works: Verse Plays and Epic, edited by Cyrus Hamlin and Frank Ryder. Vol. 8, Princeton University Press, 1995, act 4, sc. 4.
Original citation
Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenia in Taurus]. 1779, Ducal private theater, Weimar, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.