There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called “work.”
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
Wise men sometimes avoid the world, that they may not be surfeited with it.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
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