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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Earth Life Nature Tree
Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Love Oneself Relationship Remember
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
Write only of what is important and eternal.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Alone Essence Grave Live Lying Myself
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Black Color Deep Life Mourning Myself
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Behavior Happiness Oneself
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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God Government Himself Return Right
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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People Sin Yourself
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself

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