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The best things in life are silly.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.