Thomas More, Epigrams
“To build many houses and keep many flocks is surely the straight path to poverty.”
“I have found the port – farewell, Hope and Fortune! Nothing remains between us – go and toy with others.”
“I came to this earth naked, naked shall I depart. Why do I sweat in vain, though I see these naked funerals?”
“I do not weep for those whom death has stolen away. I weep – I weep for the living, whom the fate of the future burns with extended fear.”
“You would weep if you knew you had but one month left; you laugh, though you may not have even one day.”
An inspired title for, well, depressing material? Although, to be fair, the last Seneca post does not do much for morale either