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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.