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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Cesare Pavese

Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True

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