To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
- Age merely shows what children we remain.
- The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
- The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
- This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.