People have to become really bad before they care for nothing but mischief, and delight in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People have to become really bad before they care for nothing but mischief, and delight in it.

In the original (German)

Wenn die Menschen recht schlecht werden, haben sie keinen Anteil mehr als die Schadenfreude.

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