On every mountain height is rest.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.