Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Das Leben lehrt uns, weniger mit uns und andern strenge sein; du lernst es auch.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Iphigenia in Tauris

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Mellowing with age Life lessons

Speaker

Pylades

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Iphigenia in Tauris

Medium

Play

Language

German

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Occupation

Writer

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Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenia in Taurus]. 1779, Ducal private theater, Weimar, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Iphigenia in Tauris." Goethe: The Collected Works: Verse Plays and Epic, edited by Cyrus Hamlin and Frank Ryder. Vol. 8, Princeton University Press, 1995, act 4, sc. 4.

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Time
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Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

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