Pleasing the many is evil
"Can't please everyone with your deeds and works? Then please a few people. It is evil to please the many."
Translation by Nishio of a fragment of a poem by Schiller quoted at the top of Klimt's Nuda Veritas (The Naked Truth).
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It means that instead of trying to please the vague "many," we should try to please a few, more specific people.
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jaen.iconMachine Translation of 大衆を喜ばせるのは悪
大衆 was translated into masses but I changed it to "the many"
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