You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Enchiridion
Death,—a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. Book VI
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. The Immoralist
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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