"What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms."

-- Viktor E. Frankl

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“Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold (1842). “Bubbles of the Day: a comedy. [In five acts and in prose.]”, p.33
“I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for whichever side has paid you, affecting warmth and conviction, and doing everything you can to win the case, whatever your private opinion may be, will soon dull any fine sense of honour. The mercenary soldier is not a valued creature, but at least he risks his life, whereas these men merely risk their next fee.”
“It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.”
“To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”
“The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”
“Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.”
“If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life.”
“What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.”

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