At 30 and at 50

“At the age of thirty one counts one’s treasure and asks oneself whether one can cope with life - it seems I can.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

At the age of fifty, some people exclaim, “Oh, my god, I fucked up my entire life completely and irretrievably! Just fucked it all. My god, my god ...”

[Source: Ronald Hayman, “Nietzsche: A Critical Life”]