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

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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.

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.

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

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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.

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.

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...

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...

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.

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.

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...

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.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult...

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult...

We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance brings...

We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance brings...

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find...

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find...