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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic
This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it
Life well spent is long
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men
We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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