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Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in read more
Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors read more
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive read more
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
No man is free who is not a master of himself.
No man is free who is not a master of himself.
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
