One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Health is the first duty in life.
There is no reason for one to display his life to the world. The world doesn't understand.
The tragedies we survive come from outside, they're accidents. But to suffer for a mistake -ah!- that is by far the largest pain one may feel.
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.