مضمون رواية (تمهن فيلهلم ميتسر) لجوته هو: أن تتعلم كيف تعيش يفوق أهمية أن تتعلم كى تكسب قوتك.

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“Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat preve…”

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoi…”