There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another... Th...

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

Translation

(German, French)

Es gibt zwei Wege das Leben zu verlängern, erstlich dass man die beiden Punkte geboren und gestorben weiter von einander bringt und also den Weg länger macht... Die andere Art ist, dass man langsamer geht und die beiden Punkte stehen lässt, wo Gott will, und dieses gehört für die Philosophen.

Il y a deux voies pour prolonger la vie : la première est d'éloigner l'un de l'autre ces deux points que sont la naissance et la mort, afin d'accroître la route à parcourir... La seconde voie est de marcher plus lentement, en laissant les deux points là où Dieu voulut qu'ils fussent : c'est la voie des philosophes.

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

Paulo Coelho /

If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there.

Lewis Carroll /

Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.

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One never goes so far as when one no longer knows where one is going.

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David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding /

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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

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Arthur Schopenhauer /

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