"If you have a garden and a..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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“No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]”
“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
“Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.[Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]”
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“I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.”
“Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.”
“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”
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“Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.”
“I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?”
“Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.”