The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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