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)

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

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