Labor is a pleasure in itself.
—Marcus Manilius
Topics: Labor
A docile disposition will, with application, surmount every difficulty.
—Marcus Manilius
We are always beginning to live, but are never living.
—Marcus Manilius
Topics: The Present
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
—Marcus Manilius
Topics: Dying, Death
Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only for what he has not.
—Marcus Manilius
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