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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.
The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
How few philosophers are to be found who are such in character, so ordered in soul and in life, as reason demands; who regard their teaching not as a display of knowledge, but as the rule of life; who obey themselves, and submit to their own decrees!
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (-45)
Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age—each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.