Fais le bien seulement par amour du bien !

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Gutes tu rein aus des Guten Liebe!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: FRE

Gutes tu rein aus des Guten Liebe!
Das überliefre deinem Blut.
Und wenn's den Kindern nicht verbliebe,
Den Enkeln kommt es doch zu gut.

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Text Authorship:

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, written 1815, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 6. Buch der Sprüche -- Hikmet Nameh [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Gutes tu rein aus des Guten Liebe!", 1905, fragment [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title unknown, copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Fais le bien seulement par amour du bien...

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Fais le bien seulement par amour du bien !
Transmets-le à ton sang.
Et si tes enfants ne s'y tenaient pas,
Ce serait encore bon pour tes petits-enfants.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, written 1815, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 6. Buch der Sprüche -- Hikmet Nameh
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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-11
Line count: 4
Word count: 27