“The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little”
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“The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little”
“In heaven all the interesting people are missing”
“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals”
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. ”
“I drink to make other people more interesting”
“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action ”
“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness”
“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom ”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul”
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm ”
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ”
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.”
“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped”
“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”
“We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull”
“To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement”
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself”
“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same”