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Konstantin Anthony Romanov Ⅰ
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“In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory had, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, tho’ I never arrived at perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should been if I had not attempted it;”
— Dec 14, 2020 03:32PM
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Konstantin Anthony Romanov Ⅰ
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“What reverses may attend the remainder is in the hand of Providence; but, if they arrive, the reflection on past happiness enjoy’d ought to help his bearing them with more resignation.”
— Dec 14, 2020 03:38PM
Konstantin Anthony Romanov Ⅰ
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O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus.
translation (non-literal):
O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors.
— Cicero
— Dec 14, 2020 03:27PM
translation (non-literal):
O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors.
— Cicero
Konstantin Anthony Romanov Ⅰ
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“their hand is mended by the endeavor”
— Dec 14, 2020 03:25PM
Konstantin Anthony Romanov Ⅰ
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“My intention being to acquire all these virtues, I judg’d it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, and so on, till I have thro’ the thirteen;”
— Dec 14, 2020 02:35PM
