I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.