“A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Richter (1827).
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
“Life well spent is long.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
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