You bow to those high powers who, for instance, have caused you to be banished from Berlin; then submit yourself to those still higher ones, who let you live and feel and think.

Do not fight against the natural instincts which lead you to cling to life and love.

Your fears that you have nothing to offer a wife are groundless.

There are women who do not seek their happiness in the vanities which you very properly detest.

Do all you can to find such a woman.