As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.