Better Off

Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe, February 22, 1824 (tr. Ritchie Robertson):

'At bottom, people are only comfortable with the condition in which, and for which, they were born. Unless some great enterprise takes you abroad, you are much better off staying at home.'

»Denn imgrunde ist dem Menschen nur der Zustand gemäß, worin und wofür er geboren worden. Wen nicht große Zwecke in die Fremde treiben, der bleibt weit glücklicher zu Hause.«

I often wish I'd never left the small town where I grew up.

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