"He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty."

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It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt