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.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.