"[B]elieve me, it is better to have knowledge of the ledger of one's own life than of the corn-market. Recall that keen mind of yours, which is most competent to cope with the greatest subjects, from a service that is indeed honourable but hardly adapted to the happy life, and reflect that in all your training in the liberal studies, extending from your earliest years, you were not aiming at this—that it might be safe to entrust many thousand pecks of corn to your charge; you gave hope of something greater and more lofty."

"The condition of all who are engrossed is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labour at engrossments that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world—loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own."

"Shameful is he whose breath leaves him in the midst of a trial when, advanced in years and still courting the applause of an ignorant circle, he is pleading for some litigant who is the veriest stranger; disgraceful is he who, exhausted more quickly by his mode of living than by his labour, collapses in the very midst of his duties; disgraceful is he who dies in the act of receiving payments on account, and draws a smile from his long delayed heir." (LOL)

"And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name."

"There will be no lack of men of tested worth and painstaking industry. But plodding oxen are much more suited to carrying heavy loads than thoroughbred horses, and who ever hampers the fleetness of such high-born creatures with a heavy pack?"

"But, in very truth, the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of torches and wax tapers, as though they had lived but the tiniest span."

"[V]ery wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. New engrossments take the place of the old, hope leads to new hope, ambition to new ambition. They do not seek an end of their wretchedness, but change the cause. [...] Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure, but never enjoy it."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3980456&forum_id=2#36079208)

i married a crunchy-ish, maternal chick. it's been good. everything worked out. basically only decent move i've made in 10 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3980456&forum_id=2#36079085)

and once they get something they want, it's not long before they become dissatisfied with it and want something else. it's a form of OCD.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3980456&forum_id=2#36079500)

good luck finding one without at least some status whoring

my advice is find one who status whores about the right things

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3980456&forum_id=2#36080052)

similar values and shit I guess

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3980456&forum_id=2#36080073)

Any chick who enjoys namedropping, has an obsession with clothes/shoes/lavish vacations, how much money you make and what you do for a living, tries to keep up with the Joneses,, etc.....AVOID at all cost.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3980456&forum_id=2#36084606)