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the worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies; yet it is your duty, if you happen to live in an age when it is not easy to serve the State, to devote more time to leisure and to literature.
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no good is done by forcing one’s mind to engage in uncongenial work: it is vain to struggle against Nature
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...property, that most fertile source of human sorrows
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The inner curve is the one to take, not only in running races and in the contests of the circus, but also in the race of life