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“Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage."
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.”
― Death in the Clouds
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.”
― Death in the Clouds
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age”
― The Catholic Church and Conversion
― The Catholic Church and Conversion
“I...confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.”
― Atlas
― Atlas
“My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.”
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