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You're always saying "accident, accident. " That's just the point. What I want to say is that on every merest accident it is possible to look more deeply.
Permit me to remark that I am already sixty years old. And this is just the age when, after all the noisy passions of his youth, a man must choose one of three ways of life: moneymaking, ambition, or philosophy. For my part I think there are only two paths. Ambition must, sooner or later, take the form of getting something for oneself -- money or power -- in acquiring and extending either earthly or heavenly possibilities.