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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

There’s more fiction in my life than in books, so I don’t bother with them.

Whatever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.