To my wife
Abroad, should I not entertain myself with foreign ladies?
Are they not the ones most similar to you of everything there is?
Quite often I kissed your picture on a paper: Oh please forgive me
that I also kissed your picture if I found it made of flesh and blood!
Besides, I am a theorist from bottom to the top,
and so, believe me, did I only kiss in theory.
Ludwig Boltzmann
