Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.