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I envy the dead, and with them alone would I exchange my lot.
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I envy the dead, and with them alone would I exchange my lot.
When we are not worried about our own age means that we don't have true worries.
All self-love in man and in any other loving being shall not be so if not to flatter other's self-love.
He who has no motive shall never really feel pleasure in anything he does.
Who more love himself, less can love.
Nothing demonstrates more the greatness and the power of the human intellect, or the stature and nobility of man, than man's ability to know and entirely comprehend and strongly feel his smallness.
Here is nothing more rare in the world than someone who is usually bearable.
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.
Men are not ashamed of the injuries they may create, but of those they may receive.
The Italians do not have customs but traditions.