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Biography – a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Into each life some rain must fall.

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.