The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and …

Friedrich Nietzsche
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The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, p.352, Cambridge University Press
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