Convalescents and Lizards
How he likes to sit still and suffer, to practice patience, to lie in the sun! Who is as knowledgeable as he is of the joy in winter, of the patch of sunshine upon the wall! They are the most grateful animals in the world, and also the most unassuming, these convalescents and lizards, their faces half-turned towards life once more: …
Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches Allzu Menschliches, 1878, 19.