Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Avoiding

• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Letter to Maria Cosway, 12 October (1786)

• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Pain, Rocks

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.51

• As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Class, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 2: 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810”, p.110, Princeton University Press

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