#2,901

Only the years teach us to deal with our ignorance tactfully.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

#2,874

Our meditation should not consist of a theme proposed to our intelligence, but of an intellectual murmur accompanying our life.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 460

#2,737

Our life is an anecdote that hides our true personality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

#2,716

Every man lives his life like a pent-up animal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,687

Let us be careful not to call accepting what degrades us without any resistance “accepting life.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,684

Life is a daily struggle against one’s own stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,605

Whoever lives long years is present at the defeat of his cause.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 421

#2,566

In solitude man recovers strength to live.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 412

#2,515

The years do not deplume us of illusions but of stupidities.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 404

#2,469

The only certain patrimony after a few years is the load of stupidities that chance prevented us from committing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 397

#2,460

The barriers life frequently throws across our way are not obstacles for us to demolish; they are silent warnings that divert us onto the right path.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 396

#2,345

Life is delightful at those moments when one is allowed to think or dream.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 380

#2,318

The brevity of life does not distress us when instead of fixing goals for ourselves we fix routes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 376

#2,270

Neither defeat nor misfortune diminishes the appetite for life.
Only betrayal extinguishes it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 368

#2,234

Instead of acquiring flesh, density, and substance, life loses its color, is diminished, and becomes poorer when one does not believe in another.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 363

#2,204

“Life” (in emphatic quotation marks) is the consolation of those who do not know how to think.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 358

#2,172

Whoever takes pride in “having lived through a lot” should keep quiet so as not to prove to us that he has understood nothing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 353

#1,937

From the slums of life one returns not wiser, but dirtier.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,759

Few people do not need circumstances to complicate their souls a little.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291

#1,757

Metaphysical problems do not haunt man so that he will solve them, but so that he will live them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 291