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What Is Important In Life Is Life, And Not The Result Of Life.

Take Life Too Seriously, And What Is It Worth? If The Morning Wake Us To No New Joys, If The Evening Bring Us Not The Hope Of New Pleasure, Is It Worthwhile To Dress And Undress?

To Rule Is Easy, To Govern Difficult.

The Brilliant Passes, Like The Dew At Morn; The True Endures, For Ages Yet Unborn.

Oh God, How Do The World And Heavens Confine Themselves, When Our Hearts Tremble In Their Own Barriers!