"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However just remember and focus on the fact that your life could be much worse and be grateful it isn't. No matter what others or even you may briefly think you are lucky things aren't worse so be grateful."

-- Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

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“I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.”
“There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.”
“The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.”
“I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.”

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“I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
“[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.”
“Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.”
“Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of the facility where he lived, introducing himself and shaking people's hands as he had done at Rotary meetings. He complimented the nurses, â€˜You have a lovely figure.â€™ He could also eat an entire 2 lb. box of See's Candies in an afternoon, which requires considerable effort with stage five Parkinson's disease.”

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