“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.”
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“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
― De Amicitia
― De Amicitia
“You become what you give your attention to.”
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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