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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

Cesare Pavese

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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

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