Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous.