Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
What we do not understand we have no right to judge
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.