[PW] Re: Goethe quotation

[Daphne Drewello]

Bessie Makris wrote


>I have a patron looking for the exact source of a quote:
>
> "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are
> free."
>
>  This is attributed to Goethe--with no further source given.

  Not exactly,  but

"Niemand ist nicht Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein." 
Goethe, Wahlverwandtschaften II,5.

 <My translation, which really *is* free>  " No one is not a slave, who 
considers himself to be free, without
actually being so."


Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND