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To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.
Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
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I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.
