Social Commentaries
If wealth is gone--then something is gone!
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Epigrams
Social Commentaries
IF wealth is gone--then something is gone!
Quick, make up thy mind,
And fresh wealth find.
If honour is gone--then much is gone!
Seek glory to find,
And people then will alter their mind.
If courage is gone--then all is gone!
'Twere better that thou hadst never been born.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “If wealth is gone--then something is gone!” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/206/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “If wealth is gone--then something is gone!” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/206/.
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