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WIST - The Characters [Les Caractères], ch. 12 "Of Opinions [Des Jugements]," § 17 (12.17) (1688) [tr. Stewart (1970)] - La Bruyere, Jean de | WIST Quotations

A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:

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Nothing reveals more clearly men’s attitude to learning and literature, and what use they think these are to the State, than the low price they put on them, and their opinion of those who have chosen to practice them.
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A quotation from Child, Lydia Maria:

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Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
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A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:

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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
[L’esclave n’a qu’un maître; l’ambitieux en a autant qu’il y a de gens utiles à sa fortune.]
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A quotation from Schopenhauer, Arthur:

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Ordinary men are intent merely on how to spend their time; a man with any talent is interested in how to use his time.
[Die gewöhnlichen Leute sind bloß darauf bedacht, die Zeit zuzubringen; wer irgend ein Talent hat, — sie zu benutzen.]
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https://wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/48979/

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The latest blog in our #CollectingRealUtopias series is embracing winter and darkness with a celebration of rest and #slowness.

Speaking to our addiction to #productivity, to #usefulness, about how this feeds #capitalism, colonial violence, environmental destruction and personal burnouts, Malaika Cunningham argues that rest and slowness might actually be the most important act of resistance we can enact.

https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/a/blog-collecting-real-utopias-no9/
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The latest blog in our #CollectingRealUtopias series is embracing winter and darkness with a celebration of rest and #slowness.

Speaking to our addiction to #productivity, to #usefulness, about how this feeds #capitalism, colonial violence, environmental destruction and personal burnouts, Malaika Cunningham argues that rest and slowness might actually be the most important act of resistance we can enact. → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/a/blog-collecting-real-utopias-no9/
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