Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
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