I Know That I Have Lived Because

We Love Without Heeding Reason, And Cease To Love In The Same Manner.

Hope Is Nothing But A Deceitful Flatterer Accepted By Reason Only Because It Is Often In Need Of Palliatives.

I Loved, I Was Loved, My Health Was Good, I Had A Great Deal Of Money, And I Spent It, I Was Happy And I Confessed It To Myself.

I Learned Very Early That Our Health Is Always Impaired By Some Excess Either Of Food Or Abstinence, And I Never Had Any Physician Except Myself.

To Lead A Blameless Life You Must Curb Your Passions , And Whatever Misfortune May Befall You Cannot Be Ascribed By Anyone To Want Of Good Luck, Or Attributed To Fate; These Words Are Devoid Of Sense, And All Fault Will Rightly Fall On Your Own Head.