Making use of you as my pretext
“WHAT,” SAY YOU, “are you giving me advice? Indeed, have you already advised yourself, already corrected your own faults? Is this the reason why you have ...
Recent Thoughts
Foolish to be unhappy
It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.
The foundation of a sound mind
Do you ask what is the foundation of a sound mind? It is, not to find joy in useless things.
To live nobly or to live long
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long...
For the sake of being busy
…a good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.