“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
