“Be not too confiding, nor frivolous, nor over enthusiastic, —three rocks on which youth often strikes. Too confiding a nature loses respect, frivolity brings contempt, and others take advantage of excessive enthusiasm.” The Lily Of The Valley
The rational and the irrational appear such in a different way to different persons, just as the good and the bad, the profitable and the unprofitable. Discourses
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. The Two Towers
Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. Book III
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