It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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

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

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.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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...

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

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

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.

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.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Novels are longer than life.

Novels are longer than life.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.