"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

— Marcel Proust