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“It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.”
― Drei Frauen: Ein Gedicht für drei Stimmen
― Drei Frauen: Ein Gedicht für drei Stimmen
“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.”
― 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
“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
― On the Shortness of Life
― On the Shortness of Life
“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
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