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nedjelja, 18.04.2010.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
