I am content
I am content to enjoy the world without being over-occupied with it and to lead a life which is no more than excusable, neither a burden to myself nor to ...
Recent Thoughts
From bad to uncertain
…there is always gain in changing a bad condition for an uncertain one…
Fortune and conscience
As though good fortune were incompatible with a good conscience, men never become moral except when fortune is bad.
Emptiness and tomfoolery
If others were to look attentively into themselves as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of emptiness and tomfoolery. I cannot rid myself of ...
A just deed
The essence of a just deed lies in being voluntary.1 Cicero, De officiis, I, ix, 28 ↩