"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" — Henry David Thoreau

The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy

Life is a dream walking, death is a going home

Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident

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