The man who neglects things finds that his time escapes him. Then necessity or at least desire brings him to action. Having, by then, almost let the season go by, he must act in a mad rush. With strenuous effort he accomplishes the same thing that earlier and at the proper time would have been easy.

Alberti, Leon Battista: I libri della famiglia (1434)

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