This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.