You have no idea how it feels to hear behind you the tramp of a giant like Beethoven.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
To act freely is to retake possession of oneself; it is to place oneself back in pure duration.
We respect a man who respects himself.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.
To love is to find one's riches outside oneself.
A wise man will be master of his mind. A fool will be its slave.
Build not your joy on another's sorrow.
With the good man anger is quick to die.
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Mode Passes.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Remember that you have to die.
Now or never.
We should be ashamed of making a mistake, not of repairing it.
All or nothing.
Art is long, life is short.
The die is cast.
Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.
The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Whoever you are, here is your master: He is, was or will be.
He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.
Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.
Ingratitude is the mother of all vice.
We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.
One swallow does not make a summer.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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