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Instead, most Romans seem to have craved the power and authority of Augustus even more.
“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.”)”
― A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
― A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
“Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“Each man is a good education to himself, provided he has the capacity to spy on himself from close up.”
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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