"The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts."

"[Most retired business people] know how to work but they don't know how to play; they are completely devoid of the sp…"

"Man sagt sich oft im Leben, daß man die Vielgeschäftigkeit, Polypragmosyne, vermeiden, besonders, je älter man wird, …"

"Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. … Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle …"

"I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and n…"

"Let us cut loose from all the ties that bind us to others; let us win from ourselves the power to live really alone a…"

"In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel…"

"Tircis, il faut penser à faire la retraite; La course de nos jours est plus qu’à demi faite; L’âge insensiblement nou…"

"Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial."

"Libertas, quae sera, tamen respexit inertem, Candidior postquam tondenti barba cadebat Respexit tamen, etlongo post t…"