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Happiness

Carl Hilty 1891

2 Echoes

Ideas we have traced through this book

10

Live one day at a time

Echoes

Hilty’s rule is to do your work “for each day”, since the morrow brings its own strength. He quotes “Take no thought for the morrow” as “the law” and names no source.

  1. 23 BCE
    “A wise deity shrouds in obscure darkness the events of the time to come, and smiles if a mortal is solicitous beyond the law of nature. Be mindful to manage duly that which is present.”

    Horace, Odes. Earliest we can find, about 1,910 years earlier.

  2. 1891
    “Do your work, then, as a rule, for each day. The morrow will come in its own time, and with it will come the strength for the morrow.”

Full text read.

Carl Hilty, Happiness (Glück, first series), Essay I ‘The Art of Work’, tr. Francis Greenwood Peabody (1903).

Project Gutenberg eBook #68817, gutenberg.org/ebooks/68817.

09

Life is long enough if you use it

Echoes

Hilty blames lack of time on superfluities: “For your special task you will almost always have time enough.” He speaks of daily time rather than the length of life, and credits no one for it.

  1. c. 49 CE
    “We do not have a very short time assigned to us, but we lose a great deal of it: life is long enough to carry out the most important projects”

    Seneca, On the Shortness of Life. Earliest we can find, about 1,840 years earlier.

  2. 1891
    “For your special task you will almost always have time enough.”

Full text read.

Carl Hilty, Happiness (Glück, first series), Essay V ‘The Art of Having Time’, tr. Francis Greenwood Peabody (1903).

Project Gutenberg eBook #68817, gutenberg.org/ebooks/68817.

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