Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Counsels and Maxims
Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic. Book VIII
“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.” Animal Farm
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. Seagull
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