[PW] Re: Goethe quotation

Daphne Drewello drewello at daktel.com
Thu Aug 10 16:08:25 PDT 2006


Simon Cauchi wrote

>The German text is misquoted. The third word, "nicht", should be 
>"mehr". 

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

   Thank-you, Simon!  That makes much more sense, grammatically and
otherwise.


Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND



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