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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet
He who lives well is the best preacher
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study
There is more to life than increasing its speed
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication
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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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