“Leisure moments: each life well regulated has some such intervals, and he who cannot make way for them does not know how to live.”
Des moments libres. Toute vie bien réglée a les siens, et qui ne sait pas les provoquer ne sait pas vivre.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 43
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Des moments libres. Toute vie bien réglée a les siens, et qui ne sait pas les provoquer ne sait pas vivre.
Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
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