Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.
NovalisThe seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
NovalisOnly as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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