He who has seen another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge, and as it were his evil conscience.[Wer Jemandes Ideal geschaut hat, ist dessen unerbittlicher Richter und gleichsam sein böses Gewissen.]
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.[Glückseligkeit nicht ein Ideal der Vernunft, sondern der Einbildungskraft ist.]
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man—the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.
