„How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.“ Narcissus and Goldmund
Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun. Fragment
If generation were in a straight line only, and there were no compensation or circle in nature, no turn or return into one another, then you know that all things would at last have the same form and pass into the same state, and there would be no more generation of them. The Trials Of Socrates
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. Don Quixote
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