A few months before he died, St. Thomas Aquinas has a religious experience while saying Mass which led him never to write anything more. Leibniz independently discovered the infinitesimal calculus, unaware that Newton had already done so. Rousseau reportedly owned 40 walking canes. Kierkegaard thought he would die young and that his family was doomed because his father, in an act of despair, had once cursed God. William James suffered a nervous breakdown soon after completing his medical degree.
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