He is subject to a fate that is common to all mankind.

How many act in this very way in other fields! But we are not cultivating ourselves when we merely set in motion with ease and convenience that which lies in us.

Every artist, like every man, is only an individual, and will always lean to one side.

For that reason, man should pursue so far as possible, both theoretically and practically, that which is contrary to his nature.

Let the easy-going seek what is serious and severe; let the stern keep before his eyes the light and agreeable; the strong, loveliness; the amiable, strength; and everyone will develop his own nature the more, the farther he seems to remove himself from it.