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A title can never be got rid of except by the commission of some crime which draws down on you a public whipping; even then you are not certain, for you may have it restored to you by royal pardon.

...all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

...every particular change will always come under the general categories of remembering and forgetting. Life in its entirety moves in these two currents, and hence it is essential to have them under control.

Forgetting is the shears with which you cut away what you cannot use, doing it under the supreme direction of memory.

Forgetting is the true expression for an ideal process of assimilation by which the experience is reduced to a sounding-board for the soul's own music... As a result of attempting to forget only what is unpleasant, most people have a conception of oblivion as an untameable force which drowns out the past.

From the beginning one should keep the enjoyment under control, never spreading every sail to the wind in any resolve; one ought to devote oneself to pleasure with a certain suspicion, a certain wariness, if one desires to give the lie to the proverb which says that no one can have his cake and eat it too.

Here we have at once the principle of limitation, the only saving principle in the world. The more you limit yourself, the more fertile you become in invention. A prisoner in solitary confinement for life becomes very inventive, and a spider may furnish him with much entertainment.

Idleness is by no means as such a root of evil; on the contrary, it is a truly divine life, provided one is not himself bored. Idleness may indeed cause the loss of one's fortune, and so on, but the high-minded man does not fear such dangers; he fears only boredom.