"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 …"

"Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus, et mihi vivam Quod superest aevi, si quid superesse volunt di."

"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…"

"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…"