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  Doug Belshaw 4:30 pm on March 21, 2020 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: success ( 3 ), Vauvenargues ( 17 ), youth   

  [I]t is one of the illusions of youth to believe that everything can be done by our own strength and intelligence, and to desire to rise by our own industry, or by paths that merit alone cannot open to men without fortune.

  Vauvenargues

   

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  Doug Belshaw 12:30 pm on February 23, 2020 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: freedom ( 3 ), health ( 6 ), Stefan Zweig ( 3 ), youth   

  For one of life’s mysterious laws shows that we only notice the authentic and essential when it’s too late: youth, once it has fled, health at the moment it abandons us, freedom of the soul, that must precious essence, at the very moment when it is taken from us, or has already been taken.

  Stefan Zweig