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This book delves into the intricacies of managing personal finances, time, and resources, offering advice and strategies for achieving a balanced and fulfilling life.
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“What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.”
“A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.”
“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”
“What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.”
“Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.”
“All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.”
“I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.”
“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”
“When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.”
“You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .”
“We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.”
“But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.”
“Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.”
“Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.”
“Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.”
“We obtain things when we no longer want them.”