“Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”
Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 168.
“Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
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