“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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