We who didn't inherit politica...

We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

What you desire when young, yo...

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

Even though the world as a who...

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

If youth is a fault, it is one...

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

To become aware in time when y...

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Tell me, how do you cope so ca...

Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
With crazy youth's arrogant way?
Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
Had I myself not also been insufferable.

If we take people only as they...

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Aptitudes are assumed, they sh...

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

There is nothing outside of us...

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

The light is there, and colors...

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

The eye doesn't see any shapes...

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

For precisely when concepts fa...

For precisely when concepts fail one,
Words are found at the right time.

One errs as long as one strive...

One errs as long as one strives.

The day is for mistake and err...

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

We gladly put antiquity above ...

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

The one who always strives,

The one who always strives,
That one can be redeemed.

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People can only live with thei...

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

What is part of you, you canno...

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

Mastery is proven only in limi...

Mastery is proven only in limitation,
and law alone can give us freedom.

Certain faults are necessary f...

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.