My Antipathy.

A poem by Friedrich Schiller

I have a heartfelt aversion for crime, a twofold aversion,
Since 'tis the reason why man prates about virtue so much.
"What! thou hatest, then, virtue?" I would that by all it were practised,
So that, God willing, no man ever need speak of it more.

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