Advice Is Always A Confession.

It Is Often Said That In Prosperity We Have Many Friends, But That We Are Usually Neglected When Things Go Badly. I Disagree. Not Only Do Malicious People Flock About Us In Order To Witness Our Ruin, But Other Unfortunates As Well, Who Have Been Kept Away By Our Happiness, And Now Feel Close To Us On Account Of Our Troubles.

You Don't Love A Man For What He Says, But Love What He Says Because You Love Him.

Men Fear Silence As They Fear Solitude, Because Both Give Them A Glimpse Of The Terror Of Life's Nothingness.

Either The Soul Is Immortal And We Shall Not Die, Or It Perishes With The Flesh And We Shall Not Know That We Are Dead. Live, Then, As If You Were Eternal.

A Great Biography Should, Like The Close Of A Great Drama, Leave Behind It A Feeling Of Serenity. We Collect Into A Small Bunch The Flowers, The Few Flowers, Which Brought Sweetness Into A Life, And Present It As An Offering To An Accomplished Destiny. It Is The Dying Refrain Of A Completed Song, The Final Verse Of A Finished Poem.