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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham

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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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