German diligence is actually endurance.
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!