How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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