People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wie viele Sprachen du sprichst, sooft mal bist du Mensch.

Waste not a day in vain digression;
with resolute, courageous trust
seek every possible impression
and make it firmly your posession
you'll then work on because you must.

I'm sorry for people who make a great to-do about the transitory nature of things and get lost in meditations of earthly nothingness. Surely we are here precisely so as to turn what passes into something that endures; but this is possible only if you can appreciate both.