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‘A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely.’
‘There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.’
— May 28, 2024 02:56PM
‘There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.’
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‘For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream’
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‘Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments’
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‘Let us therefore go all out to make the most of friends…and we shall realise that we have lost all too much time while they are still alive’
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‘The fact that a person is living for nobody does not automatically mean that he is living for himself’
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‘It is one thing, however, to remember, another to know’
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‘Death ought to be right there before the eyes of a young man just as much as an old one’
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‘He is self-content and yet he would refuse to live if he had to live without any human company at all’
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