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Et godt liv måles ikke etter lengde, men etter bruk.
Michel de Montaigne
Kilde
Les Essais (1580-88), bok 1, kap. 20.
Engelsk
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use.
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Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
