It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no...

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no...

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them...

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Novels are longer than life.

Novels are longer than life.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities...

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities...

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known...

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known...

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the...

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the...

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...