“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.