Ernest Hemingway

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

ERNEST HEMINGWAY born July 21, 1899 (d. 1961)

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

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