Simple. If you're addicted to ilx - post your final post to this thread, and that's the end of it.

signing off

All things are now at their peak, above all being a true individual. Inclination and ingenuity. In your affairs, create suspense. Knowledge and courage contribute in turn to greatness. Make people depend on you. The height of perfection. Avoid outdoing your superior. Imperturbability, the spirit’s most sublime quality. Belie your national defects. Fortune and fame. Deal with people from whom you can learn. Nature and art, material and craft. Declared and undeclared intentions. Reality and manner. Have intelligent support. Knowledge and good intention. Vary your procedure. Application and capability. Don’t arouse excessive expectations from the start. A person born in the right century. The art of being lucky. A person with wide-ranging knowledge. Have no blemish. Temper your imagination. A word to the wise is enough. Find everyone’s weak spot. Value intensiveness more than extensiveness. Vulgar in nothing. A person of integrity. Don’t make a profession out of discredited occupations. Know the fortunate, to befriend them, and the unfortunate, to shun them. Be known for pleasing people. Know how to leave things to one side. Know your key quality. Think things through. Size up fortune. Recognize and know how to use insinuations. Quit whilst fortune is smiling. Recognize things at their peak, at their best, and know how to take advantage of them. Be in people’s good graces. Never exaggerate. Natural command. Think with the few and speak with the many. Affinity with great men. Caution – use it, but don’t abuse it. Conquer your aversions. Avoid getting embroiled. Real depths make a true person. A judicious and observant person. Never lose your self-respect. Choose well. Never lose your composure. Show your mettle, but wisely. Bide your time. Quick and impulsive actions. Those who think things through are more secure. Know how to adapt yourself. Leave a good impression. Good judgement. Eminence in what’s best. Work with good tools. The excellence of being first. Know how to avoid giving yourself grief. Outstanding good taste. Make sure of a successful outcome. Choose occupations that win praise. Make others understand. Don’t give in to vulgar humours. Know how to refuse. Don’t be uneven, or inconsistent in your actions. A resolute person. Know how to be evasive. Don’t be impossible to deal with. Choose a heroic model. Don’t always be joking. Know how to be all things to all people. Skill in embarking on something. A genial temperament. Take care when gathering information. Dazzle anew. Take neither the good nor the bad to extremes. Allow yourself some minor slip. Know how to use your enemies. Don’t be the wild card. Forestall malicious gossip. Culture and refinement. Let your manner be lofty. Understand yourself. The art of living long: live well. Only act if prudence has no doubts. Exceptional sense. A universal person. Unfathomable abilities. Know how to maintain expectation. On moral sense. Make and keep your reputation. Conceal your wishes. Reality and appearance. A man free of illusion. Half the world is laughing at the other half, and all are fools. A stomach for great mouthfuls of good fortune. Each with the dignity proper to their status. Understand what different jobs entail. Don’t be tedious. Don’t vaunt your good fortune. Don’t appear self-satisfied. A short cut to being a true person. Don’t be condemnatory. Don’t hang around to be a setting sun. Have friends. Win affection. In good fortune prepare for bad. Never compete. Get used to the bad temperaments of those you deal with. Always deal with upstanding people. Never talk about yourself. Gain a reputation for courtesy. Don’t make yourself disliked. Live according to common practice. Don’t make a great deal over nothing. Mastery in words and deeds. A person without affectation. Be desired. Don’t keep a tally of ignominious actions. The fool is not someone who does something foolish, but someone who, once this is done, doesn’t know how to hide it. Nonchalant grace in everything. A sublime spirit. Never complain. Do, and appear to do. A gallant nature. Reconsider things. Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone. Have double of life’s necessities. Don’t be given to contradiction. Fully understand matters. The wise person should be self-sufficient. The art of leaving things alone. Know your unlucky days. Immediately find the good in everything. Don’t enjoy the sound of your own voice. Don’t support the worse side out of stubbornness. Don’t go against existing belief to avoid seeming vulgar. Go in supporting the other person’s interests so as to come out achieving your own. Don’t expose your sore finger. Look beneath the surface. Don’t be inaccessible. Possess the art of conversation. Know how to deflect trouble on to someone else. Know how to sell your wares. Think ahead. Never be associated with someone who can cast you in a poor light. Avoid stepping into great men’s shoes. Don’t be too quick to believe or bestow affection. Skill in controlling your passions. Choose your friends. Don’t be mistaken about people. Know how to use your friends. Know how to suffer fools. Talk circumspectly. Know your pet failings. Know how to triumph over envy and malevolence. Never let compassion for the unfortunate earn you the disfavor of the fortunate. Test the waters. Fight a clean fight. Differentiate between a sayer and a doer. Know how to help yourself. Don’t become a monster of stupidity. Take more care not to fail once than to succeed a hundred times. Always have something in reserve. Don’t waste favors. Don’t engage with someone with nothing to lose. Don’t be brittle as glass in dealing with people. Don’t live in a hurry. A person of substance. Either know, or listen to someone who does. Avoid familiarity when dealing with people. Believe your heart. Reticence is the stamp of true ability. Never be ruled by what you think your enemy should do. Without lying, don’t reveal every truth. A dash of boldness in everything is an important element of good sense. Don’t hold opinions doggedly. Don’t stand on ceremony. Don’t stake your reputation on a single throw. Recognize faults. Anything popular, do yourself; anything unpopular, use others to do it. Be ready to praise. Take advantage of what a person lacks. Find the consolation in everything. Don’t be pleased with excessive courtesy. A truly peaceable person is a person with a long life. Beware the person who goes in supporting someone else’s interests so as to come out achieving their own. Have a realistic idea of yourself and your affairs. Know how to appreciate. Know your lucky star. Never be hindered by fools. Know how to transplant yourself. Know how to garner esteem – wisely, not pushily. Have something still to desire. All those who appear fools are, along with half of those who don’t. Words and deeds make a perfect man. Know the great people of your time. Undertake what’s easy as if it were hard, and what’s hard as if it were easy. Know how to use scorn. Realize that the vulgar are everywhere. Practice self-restraint. Don’t suffer from a fool’s sickness. Free yourself from common stupidity. Know how to use the truth. In heaven, everything is good; in hell, everything bad. Always keep to yourself the ultimate tricks of your trade. Know how to contradict. Don’t turn one stupid mistake into two. Beware the person with hidden intentions. Speak clearly. Neither love nor hate forever. Don’t act obstinately, but with care. Don’t be known for artifice. When you can’t wear a lion’s skin, where a fox’s. Don’t be annoyingly impetuous. A person who is cautious is clearly prudendt. Don’t be very idiosyncratic. Know how to take things. Know your sovereign fault. Be careful to oblige. Don’t believe your first impression. Don’t be a scandalmonger. Know how to divide your life up wisely. Open your eyes in time. Never let something be seen half done. Be a little practical. Don’t get other people’s taste wrong. Don’t entrust your reputation to another without having their honour as security. Know how to ask. Grant something as a favour before it has to be given as a reward. Never share secrets with superiors. Know what you lack. Don’t be too sharp. Know how to appear the fool. Take a joke, but don’t make someone the butt of one. Carry things through. Don’t be completely dove-like. Know how to put someone under an obligation. Sometimes reason in a singular and out-of-the-ordinary way. Don’t offer an apology to someone who hasn’t asked for one. Know a little more and live a little less. Don’t be carried away by the last person you meet. Don’t start to live just when life has to end. When should you reason in reverse? Human means must be sought as if there were no divine ones, and divine ones as if there were no human ones. Neither entirely selfish, nor entirely altruistic. Don’t express an idea too plainly. Don’t dismiss something bad because it’s minor. Know how to do good. Always be forearmed. Never break off relations. Look for someone to help you shoulder misfortunes. Anticipate offences and turn them into favours. You will never belong entirely to someone else nor them to you. Don’t persist in folly. Know how to forget. Many pleasurable things don’t have to belong to you. Don’t have careless days. Know how to really challenge your subordinates. Don’t be bad by being totally good. Silken words, and a mild nature. The sensible person does at the beginning what the fool does in the end. Take advantage of your novelty. Don’t be the only person to condemn what pleases many. Someone who knows little should keep to what’s safest in any profession. When selling, let your price be that there is no price. Understand the temperaments of those you deal with. Have appeal. Go with the flow, but not beyond decency. Know how to renew your character using nature and art. Show yourself off. Avoid being noted. Don’t respond to contradiction. An honourable person. The approval of knowledgeable people. Use absence. Be sensibly inventive. Don’t meddle. Don’t perish from someone else’s misfortune. Don’t allow yourself to be under an obligation, either wholly or to everyone. Never act when passions are inflamed. Live as circumstances demand. The greatest stigma for a person. To combine esteem and affection is a real blessing. Know how to appraise. Let your natural talents overcome the demands of the job. On maturity. Moderation in forming opinions. Heroic, not histrionic. A man of many, and truly majestic, qualities. Act as though always on view. Three things make a prodigy. Leave people hungry. In a word, a saint.

tl;dr

That's nice dear *resumes knitting*

do u even knit bro

*fingers in ears*

thanks for the advice reg

is that the first draft of the Trainspotting "choose life" thing?

C ON T'S 4EVA

I’ve posted so mant last posts

Won't somebody think of the tax returns?

I swear this is my last post.

Whatevs

ILX: The Farewell Tour

Supporting acts: Jay Graydon / David foster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCDWYgVyps

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