Goethe’s Faust – God speaks with Mephistopheles:

Goethe’s Faust – God speaks with Mephistopheles:

God:
Have you nothing else to name?
Do you always come here to complain?
Does nothing ever go right on the Earth? 295

Mephistopheles:
No, Lord! I find, as always, it couldn’t be worse.
I’m so involved with Man’s wretched ways,
I’ve even stopped plaguing them, myself, these days.

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