He is wholly without envy, but there is not merit therein: for he wants to conquer a land which no one yet possessed and hardly any one has ever seen.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

A beautiful soul has no other merit, but it's existence

In a hamlet or in a forest, in the deep water or on the dry land, wherever venerable persons dwell, that place is delightful.