O, would that I had never seen Wittenberg,
never read book! and what wonders I have done,
all Germany can witness, yea, all the world;
for which Faustus has lost both Germany and the world,
and must remain in hell for ever.

Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus, last scene

 

For the commission to do a great building,
I would have sold my soul like Faust.
Now I had found my Mephistopheles.
He seemed no less engaging than Goethe’s.

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich