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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists. If death does take him, he is probably unawar...more

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We lose track of everything, and of everyone, even ourselves. The facts of my father's life are less known to me than those of the life of Hadrian. My...more

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Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightes...more

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At that period I paid as constant attention to the greater securing of my happiness, to enjoying and judging it, too, as I had always done for the sma...more

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I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty too relaxing, and that kindness is a corruption f...more