We must have a passion in life.
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.
No human creature can give orders to love.
Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.