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Ah, how happy would many lives be if individuals troubled themselves as little about other people's affairs as about their own!
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die
Everything has been figured out, except how to live
You don't even live once
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably
To live is to feel oneself lost
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?
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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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