Simplicissimus Quotes

“So perfect and complete was my ignorance that it was impossible for me to know that I knew nothing.”
― Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus

“Although I had managed to escape from the goose-coop, I now realized the full extent of my misfortune, for I had shitted my trousers and did not know what to do about it.”
― Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus