Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.