Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristicks of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Seneca·65 ADThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long.
Seneca·58 ADAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Michel de Montaigne·1580The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
