"There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort ... The need of work is in me."

-- Guy de Maupassant

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“If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie”
“Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.”
“I submit that President Obama and all the democrat politicians that voted for Obamacare never even read the proposed law. Nancy Pelosi admitted it. So, now, when chaos reigns, they act surprised that things aren't working.”
“People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.”
“God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!”
“We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories”
“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
“Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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