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“Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.”

Life Wells Long Games Situation Player Bigger Terror Abandon Hiding Panic Thrill Delicious Primal Hide And Seek Playing Hide And Seek

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.”

Life Children Life Is Feet Garden Tools Rounds Evening Benches Children Playing

Book:The play as theater

Source: The play as theater

“It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.”

Life Humans Force Nature Human Beings Logic Cures Dependent

Book:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850

Source: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850

“Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.”

Life Laughing Nice Laughter Jokes Smoke

Author:Janet Jackson

“The skin is our body's envelope, the wrapping that delivers us to the world. If we understand how the skin functions in mid-life and adjust goals and life-styles appropriately, we'll be surprised how much better we can look.”

Ifs World Life Looks Body Understanding Goal Style Skins Function Envelopes Wrapping Goals And Life Life Style

Author:Jane Fonda

“Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.”

Life Action Peace Can Do Duty Essentials Commitment Response Peaceful Good Life Compelling Binding

Author:James M. Paramore

“Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.”

Life Seems Fate Jest Conniving

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?”

Life War Truth Youth Battle Red Prize Metals

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."”

Men Life Enough Justice Saws Doors Fronts Mountain Sitting Blue Hills Smoking Owners Old Man Hiking Traveler Pipe Cabins Ridges Log Cabins

Author:James Keller

“A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."”

Life Years Said School Lasts Girl Next Party Study Conversation High School Asking Dinner Wide Finished Astronomy Teenager Last Year Astronomers Dinner Party School Girl

Author:James Keller

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