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For he lives twice who can at once employ the present well, and even the past enjoy
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live
One should eat to live, not live to eat
Where a man can live, he can also live well
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing
To live is not merely to breathe: it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, senses, faculties, of all of our parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it
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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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