We are always beginning to live, but are never living.
Original text (Latin)
Original text (Latin)
Man must be so weighed as though there were a God within him.
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
As we are born we die, and the end commences with the beginning.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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