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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
One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life
Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal
Life begins on the other side of despair
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded
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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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