The Art of Nuance Is the Best Gain of Life

In our youthful years we still venerate and despise without the art of nuance. We have rightly to do hard penance for having fallen upon men and things with yay and nay. The angry and reverent spirit peculiar to youth appears to allow itself no peace, until it has suitably falsified men and things to be able to vent its passion on them. Youth in itself even is something falsifying and deceptive.