MEPHISTOPHELES. But come now, choose a Faculty! STUDENT. I don’t think Jurisprudence would be quite my line. MEPHISTOPHELES. Well, well, I can’t entirely disagree, 1970 I know a bit about that discipline. Statutes and laws, inherited Like an old sickness, passed on by the dead Through endless generations, creeping down From land to land, from town to town! Sense becomes nonsense, good deeds dangerous; Our forebears are our burden.
