Gregory Williams

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The only really leisured people are those who devote time to acquiring true knowledge rather than trivia.  Such people are not content to live ‘in the moment’ exclusively but show a keen awareness of history, of all the years that have gone before them and they know that the amount of time they have left is uncertain and finite.
On the Shortness of Life: De Brevitate Vitae (A New Translation) (Stoics In Their Own Words Book 4)
by Seneca
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