Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

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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.

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.

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

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

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.

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.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Novels are longer than life.

Novels are longer than life.

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.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to...

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to...

One brave deed makes no hero.

One brave deed makes no hero.

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you...

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you...