"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." — Aristotle

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

I think, therefore I am.

Source: A Discourse on Method (1637), Part IV

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

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