The austere sides of life, at least of mine, which move through it like a red thread, and which one faces more and more defenselessly in old age, are not balanced to the hundredth part by the pleasurable. I will gladly admit that the same fates which have been so hard for me to bear, and still are, would have been much easier for many another person, but the mental constitution belongs to our ego, which the Creator of our existence has given us, and we can change little in it.


As quoted in Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 360

Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

The austere sides of life, at least of mine, which move through it like a red thread, and which one faces more and more defenselessly in old age, are ...

The austere sides of life, at least of mine, which move through it like a red thread, and which one faces more and more defenselessly in old age, are ...

The austere sides of life, at least of mine, which move through it like a red thread, and which one faces more and more defenselessly in old age, are ...

The austere sides of life, at least of mine, which move through it like a red thread, and which one faces more and more defenselessly in old age, are ...