[PW] Re: Goethe quotation

[Simon Cauchi]

On 11/08/2006, at 9:33 AM, Daphne Drewello wrote:

> "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."

The German text is misquoted. The third word, "nicht", should be 
"mehr". See, for example,
<http://www.lettern.de/digitext/WAHL.rtf>.

Or "Nobody is more a slave than the man who imagines himself to be free 
without being so."

(From H. M. Waidson's translation, Elective Affinities, London, John 
Calder, 1960, p. 183.)

Simon Cauchi
<simon.cauchi at xtra.co.nz>