The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. Book VII
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general. Human, All Too Human
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Discourses
When... in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? Notes from Underground
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