Certain Quote by Anonymous

“As Seneca put it: ‘The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.”

— Michael Foley

“Limit your day to what you feel comfortable with doing – put the rest on the shelf – for further consideration down the line.”

— Art Hochberg

“in seeking only to stay upright, you fall, are banished then cursed and reviled, condemned to wander a continent you don’t even know where…

— Joshua Cohen

“Leisure without study is death—a tomb for the living person.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4”

— Ryan Holiday

“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the…

— Herman Melville

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil—that none of…

— Ryan Holiday

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.”

— Arnold Bennett

“I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life…

— Marie Darrieussecq

“His error lay in supposing that this age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne