Nowhere on earth does the rose of happiness blossom without thorns; but what bursts forth out of these thorns is everywhere and in various guises the transient, yet beautiful rose of man's joy in living.
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Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, Bk. 8, Ch. 5; as quoted in Johann Gottfried Herder: Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings (2004), edited and translated by Ioannis D. Evrigenis and Daniel Pellerin, p. v