The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.