literary work

Retirement

poem by James Beattie

Notable quotes

“[Most retired business people] know how to work but they don't know how to play; they are completely devoid of the spirit of relaxation and recreation. Such forced idleness is ruinous to the morale of many of the more capable men of affairs.”
— Dr. Burrill Bernard Crohn, speaking at the second annual graduate fortnight of the New York Academy of Medicine, 15 October 1929
“Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. … Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.”
— Horace, Satires, Book I, Satire i, as translated by N. Rudd (2005), vv. 92-94
“Let us cut loose from all the ties that bind us to others; let us win from ourselves the power to live really alone and to live that way at our ease.”
— Michel de Montaigne, as quoted by Sarah Bakewell, How to Live (2010), p. 29
“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.”
— Seneca the Younger, as quoted in A Little Book of Aphorisms (New York: 1947), p. 173

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