“Well doth he live who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limit of his means.”
Variant translation: Believe me that he who has passed his time in retirement, has lived to a good end, and it behoves every man to live within his means
III, iv, 26
Tristia (Sorrows)
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Roman poet -43–17 BCRelated quotes
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Source: To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618), Lines 55 - 70
Context: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art,
My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part.
For though the poet's matter nature be,
His art doth give the fashion. And that he
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat,
(Such as thine arc) and strike the second heat
Upon the muses anvil; turn the fame,
And himself with it, that he thinks to frame;
Or for the laurel, he may gain a scorn,
For a good poet's made, as well as born.
And such wert thou. Look how the father's face
Lives in his issue, even so the race
Of Shakspeare's mind and manners brightly shines
In his well-turned, and true filed lines:
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance.
“Fair is his end who loving well doth die.”
Bernardo Dovizi (1470–1520) Italian cardinal and playwright
Act I, scene II. — (Lidio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 254.
La Calandria (c. 1507)
“We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.”
Inde fit ut raro, qui se vixisse beatum
dicat et exacto contentus tempore vita
cedat uti conviva satur, reperire queamus.
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
“He is dead already who doth not feel
Life is worth living still.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Is Life Worth Living? http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/9/3/1/19316/19316.htm (1896)
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68.
Imitation of Horace (1685)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
280
Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.