To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Don’t play in someone else’s universe. Define your own.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

You want to live—but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying—and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.

See what daily exercise does for one.

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