We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

provou que (o prazer) é um presente da divindade, 'pois - dizia - o homem não pode dar a si próprio nem sensações nem ideias, recebe tudo; a dor e o prazer lhe vêm de fora, como sua existência'.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

Nous poursuivons ce qui nous fuit, nous fuyons ce qui nous poursuit. "We pursue what flees from us, flee from what pursues us.

And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin.