→ Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
→ He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
→ Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.