Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, itd be a fun world, wouldnt it?
Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.
Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.