As translated by Jerome Rothenberg
“
Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord
preferred to live with whores
& sinners, seeing
I go in for that myself.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord
preferred to live with whores
& sinners, seeing
I go in for that myself." in the context of "As translated by Jerome Rothenberg" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" (Quotes, Venetian Epigrams (1790))
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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