“Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight.”
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 74.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
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“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.”
Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid adquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius.
Book I, section 42. Translation by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1873), p. 73
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)

“Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.”
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet

“Loss is nothing else but change,and change is Natures delight.”