Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. The Alchemist
It is a great folly to lose the inner man in order to gain the outer, that is, to give up the whole or the greater part of one's quiet, leisure, and independence for splendour, rank, pomp, titles and honours. Parerga and Paralipomena
“He alone knew something that even initiates didn’t know how easy it was to fast.” A Hunger Artist
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain's Notebook
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