“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool”
“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.”
“One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.”
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
“One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.”
“If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.”