Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. Of Mice and Men

It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Discourses

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." The Analects of Confucius

„All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other.“ Narcissus and Goldmund