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"We live our lives as a tale that is told."
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Success in life means doing that thing than which nothing else is more dear to you.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
La liberté, c'est le droit de faire tout ce que les lois permettent.
The world is a great story, and we are the characters.
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
The rules of art are not arbitrary; they are founded in reason and in the nature of things.
Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
The future is something we can shape, not just something that happens to us.
Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.
The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.