What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.