The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
The aim of living is life itself.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.