The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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