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"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
"We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?"
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
"Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health."
"~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~"
"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
"We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game."
"The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation."
"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
"The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat"
"Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen."
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
"Every man has within himself the entire human condition"
"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."