A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERTOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Talent is nothing but long patience.
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The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft.
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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To be simple is no small matter.
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.
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The future is the worst thing about the present.
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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
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One’s existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
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