No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.