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Sêneca
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live— onl
Sêneca
George Santayana
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on,
George Santayana
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
The man who has lived the longest is not he who ha
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Samuel Johnson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Life protracted is protracted woe.
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Hardy
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather
Thomas Hardy
Lord Byron
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
’Tis very certain the desire of life / Prolongs it
Lord Byron
Marco Aurélio
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when
Marco Aurélio
Kurt Vonnegut
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
What should young people do with their lives today
Kurt Vonnegut