
„Ich dachte, wir wären großartig und das waren wir.“
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
The Four Loves (1960)
Kontext: Friendship arises out of mere companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
„Ich dachte, wir wären großartig und das waren wir.“
Wolf Solent, 1929, aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Richard Hoffmann, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-40091 X, S. 693
"If I can't enjoy life," he thought, "with absolute childish absorption in its simplest elements, I might as well never have been born!" - p. 963 archive.org http://archive.org/stream/wolfsolentanovel030662mbp#page/n481/mode/2up
„Einem einzigen Zeugen glaubt man nicht, selbst wenn es Cato wäre.“
Adversus Rufinum 2,24
Original lat.: "Unique testi nec Catoni creditum est"
Briefwechsel, 10. Juni 1898. Briefe und Tagebuchblätter (1920) S. 43 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=xa45AAAAMAAJ&q=%22leicht+und+lieblich%22