To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. To the Lighthouse
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books. Stages on Life's Way
A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. The Gambler
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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