The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence. Fragment
He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen. Dubliners
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
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. Book V
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