Posted by: Cheope
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of low morality. The time has proven that scoundrels always succeed to prestigious tyrants.
And has a nature so malign and ruthless,
That never doth she glut her greedy will,
And after food is hungrier than before.
If I have seen further than other men it's because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Sad eyes never lie.
This life is a whore and she'll probably break my heart, but shit, I'm in love. This is how it works, rhum and pear, because there are some strong moments that leave a sour flavour in the mouth, and others that are so nice to make you forget that bad back-flavour that life has.
1) Just for today I'll try to live the day without needing to resolve my life-problems all at once.
2) Just for today I will have an extreme care towards my looks: I'll dress soberly, I won't raise my voice, I'll be polite, I won't criticize anyone, I won't try to better or to disciple anyone other than myself.
3) Just for today I'll be happy knowing that I was created to be happy not only in the other world, but in this one too.
4) Just for today I'll adapt to the circumstances, without asking for the circumstances to adapt to my wishes.
5) Just for today I'll dedicate ten minutes to sitting in silence listening to God, reminding myself that, like food, it is necessary to bodily life, as silence and listening are necessary to the life of the soul.
6) Just for today, I'll do something good and not tell anyone.
7) Just for today I'll make a schedule: I might not follow it perfectly, but I'll make it. And I'll look away from the two evils: hurry and hesitation.
8) Just for today I'll know from the bottom of my heart, notwithstanding appearances, that existence takes care of me like no one else in the world.
9) Just for today I'll have no passing fears. I especially shan't fear enjoying all that is beautiful and believing in Love.
10) I could easily do for 12 hours what I'd hate to do for the rest of my life.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.