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- I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
- Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.
- If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.
- And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted
- The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon…
- All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to…
- All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire…
- All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in…
- After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes…
- How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell…
- All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
- No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
- So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing…
- There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of…
- Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
- Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt