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Thomas Jefferson to Gerard E. Stack, 25 November 1819 [document with enclosure]

From: Jefferson Papers | Retirement Series | Volume 15 | Thomas Jefferson to Gerard E. Stack, 25 November 1819 [document with enclosure]

1Thomas Jefferson to Gerard E. Stack, 25 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
To your letter of Sunday last , explaining your propensities for retirement, I will answer in the words of Cicero , which an experience of three or four years at one period of my life, proved to be full of wisdom. ‘ Te ad coenas itare desisse , molesté fero. magnâ enim te delectatione et voluptate privasti. et me hercule moneo te, quod pertinere ad beate vivendum arbitror, ut cum viris bonis,...