Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Years of teaching Wilhelm Meister (№ 432823)

He was too little acquainted with the world to know that just people who are frivolous and incapable of correction often accuse themselves in the most decisive way, with great frankness confess and repent of their shortcomings, although they do not have the slightest strength to go off the path on which they attracts an irresistible nature.