Golf is a good walk spoiled. The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good. Book IV
Every living creature is happy when he fulfills his destiny, that is, when he realizes himself, when he is being that which in truth he is. For this reason, Schlegel, inverting the relationship between pleasure and destiny, said, “We have a genius for what we like.” Genius, man’s superlative gift for doing something, always carries a look of supreme pleasure. History as a System
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The Karamazov Brothers
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