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? 295Mephistopheles: 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.Pasted from <http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/FaustIProl.htm>
The legend of Faust from the Renaissance times. The end of civilization.