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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first
Live with your century; but do not be its creature
I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species
To live is to think
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world
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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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