Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work. (translator unknown).
Seneca the Younger
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. (translator unknown).
Seneca the Younger
What Asriel's done has shaken everything up, Mr. Scoresby, shaken it more profoundly than it's ever been shaken before. These doorways and windows that I spoke of — they open in unexpected places now. It's hard to navigate, but this wind is a fair one.
Philip Pullman
"Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something. "
Josef Pieper
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. (translator unknown).
Seneca the Younger
Might makes right. (translator unknown).
Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
Senge, Peter
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