The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him--an irrational form which no other can outbid. The Practice of Psychotherapy
Everywhere soldiering entails the same busily empty monotony; hour after hour is mapped out in accordance with inflexible, antediluvian regulations, and even one's leisure does not seem to offer much in the way of variety. In the officers' mess the same faces, the same conversation; at the cafe the same games of cards and billiards. Beware of Pity
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine. Book II
The reproach of a father is agreeable medicine, for it contains more that is useful than it contains of that which gives pain. Fragment
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