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Isabella
is 92% done
- Every person, without exception has someone to whom he confides everything that is confided to himself
- Whatever happens was bound to happen
- One can do nothing better than endure what cannot be cured
- Everything we shall suffer is a strand
- Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own. Let them put their preaching into practice
— 2 hours, 32 min ago
- Whatever happens was bound to happen
- One can do nothing better than endure what cannot be cured
- Everything we shall suffer is a strand
- Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own. Let them put their preaching into practice
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Isabella’s Previous Updates
Isabella
is 83% done
- All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, if you are traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way
- If you wish to be stripped of your vices, you must get right away from the examples others set of them
- Move to better company
— May 19, 2026 06:22PM
- If you wish to be stripped of your vices, you must get right away from the examples others set of them
- Move to better company
Isabella
is 80% done
- Whatever happens is never as serious as rumor makes it out to be
- No one has power over us, when death is within our own power
- If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you are needing is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person
— May 18, 2026 06:01PM
- No one has power over us, when death is within our own power
- If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you are needing is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person
Isabella
is 71% done
- Everything hangs on one’s thinking
- A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is
- Philosophy has taught men to worship what is divine, to love what is human
— May 17, 2026 06:01PM
- A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is
- Philosophy has taught men to worship what is divine, to love what is human
Isabella
is 54% done
- Whatever can happen at any time can happen today
- I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same as never having begun, nor a transition. For I shall never be in confinement quite so cramped anywhere else, as I am here.
— May 13, 2026 06:08PM
- I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same as never having begun, nor a transition. For I shall never be in confinement quite so cramped anywhere else, as I am here.
Isabella
is 47% done
- You’ve as many enemies as you’ve slaves
- Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness
- The fact that a person is living for nobody does not automatically mean that he is living for himself
- In our tears we are trying to find means of proving that we feel the loss. We are not being governed by our grief, but parading it
— May 12, 2026 05:56PM
- Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness
- The fact that a person is living for nobody does not automatically mean that he is living for himself
- In our tears we are trying to find means of proving that we feel the loss. We are not being governed by our grief, but parading it
Isabella
is 30% done
- A sound mind can neither be bought or borrowed
- I wasn’t born for one particular corner, the whole world’s my home country
- The thing you are looking for, the good life, is available everywhere
— May 05, 2026 12:39PM
- I wasn’t born for one particular corner, the whole world’s my home country
- The thing you are looking for, the good life, is available everywhere
Isabella
is 15% done
- Nothing, however outstanding and however hopeful, will ever give me any pleasure if knowledge is to be for my benefit alone
- What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend! That is progress indeed, such a person will never be alone
- Associate with people who are likely to improve you
- Men learn as they teach
- Each of us is audience enough for the other
- Your merits should not be outward facing
— May 05, 2026 11:22AM
- What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend! That is progress indeed, such a person will never be alone
- Associate with people who are likely to improve you
- Men learn as they teach
- Each of us is audience enough for the other
- Your merits should not be outward facing
