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 The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.  War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory. Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns. Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave. Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them. The happy people are those who are producing something. Boredom is the fear of self. Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. Philosophy is doubt. I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. Sex is like money; only too much is enough. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Teaching is the royal road to learning. To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something. The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent. I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. 
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