The truth is hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point

The truth is hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Oh the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.