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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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