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The wiseman lacks nothing but needs a great number of things, wheras the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing but lacks everything.
Experiences are what matter
I am writing this not for the eyes of the many, but for yours alone: for each of us is audience enough for the other.
-Epicurus
-Epicurus
And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived long—he has existed long.
-Seneca
-Seneca
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The wiseman lacks nothing but needs a great number of things, wheras the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing but lacks everything.
- Chrysippus
"Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree.'What, grandad!' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree?' And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die'. I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute....' Which of us was right boss?"
- From Zorba the Greek
I wasn't born for one particular corner: the whole world's my home country.
-Seneca
-Seneca
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For in his mind our profits underwent marvellous transformations: they became travels, women and new adventures. He was waiting impatiently for the day when he would earn a fortune, when his wings would be sufficiently big- "wings" was the name he gave to money- for him to fly away.
-From "Zorba the Greek"
-From "Zorba the Greek"
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Irrestorable, Time flies.
-Georgics, III
-Georgics, III
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends on the morrow and wastes today.
-Seneca
-Seneca