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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.
You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates read more
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
[It., Spesso e da forte,
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Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
[It., Spesso e da forte,
Piu che il morire, il vivere.]
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is read more
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to read more
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.