Man sagt sich oft im Leben, daß man die Vielgeschäftigkeit, Polypragmo — Retirement

"Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus, et mihi vivam Quod superest aevi, si quid superesse volunt di."

"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."

"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."

"[Most retired business people] know how to work but they dont 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."

"In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel de Montaigne, long weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while still entire, retired to the bosom of the learned Virgins, where in calm and freedom from all cares he will spend what little remains of his life now more than half run out. If the fates permit, he will complete this abode, this sweet ancestral retreat; and he has consecrated it to his freedom, tranquility, and leisure."

"Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial."