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

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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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.

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.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.