I Want To Seize Fate By The

If I Contemplate Myself As Part Of The Universe: What Am I?

Oh You Men Who Think Or Say That I Am Malevolent, Stubborn, Or Misanthropic, How Greatly Do You Wrong Me. You Do Not Know The Secret Cause Which Makes Me Seem That Way To You. Oh How Harshly Was I Flung Back By The Doubly Sad Experience Of My Bad Hearing.

Recommend Virtue To Your Children, That Alone - Not Wealth - Can Give Happiness. It Upholds In Adversity And The Thought Of It And My Art Prevents Me From Putting An End To My Life.

Don't Regard Yourself As Too Divine To Improve, Occasionally, Your Own Works.

I Know No Other Sign Of Superiority Than Goodness.