“You don’t have to cry just because you’re sad.” My Sweet Orange Tree
The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book-- what everyone else does not say in a book. Twilight of the Idols
"That man is … odd," I dared say to William. The Name of The Rose
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Discourses
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