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.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!