“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Source: The Black Obelisk
“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.”
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
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La vie n'est bonne qu'à deux choses : à faire des mathématiques et à les professer.
quoted by François Arago in Notices biographiques, Volume 2 http://books.google.fr/books?pg=PA662&id=ZzNLAAAAYAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false, 1854, p. 662.
