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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

— Friedrich Schlegel

Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.

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“Selected Ideas (1799-1800)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (1968) #101

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