Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

For as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it is almost always a reproach to everything that can.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.