It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"
Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.