Stern is the visage of necessity.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
Deaf rage that hears no leader.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.