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  • I have no respect for any study whatsoever if its end is the making of money. Such studies are to me unworthy ones. They involve the putting out of skills to hire, and are only of value in so far as they may develop the mind without occupying it for long. Time should be spent on them only so long as one’s mental abilities are not up to dealing with higher things. They are our apprenticeship, not our real work.
    Why ‘liberal studies’ are so called is obvious: it is because they are the ones considered worthy of a free man.

    Speaker: Seneca
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:46 PM
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    Tags: education, materialism, western-world

  • The wise man…lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas ‘the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.’

    Speaker: Seneca
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    Posted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:40 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: character, foolishness, materialism, western-world, wisdom
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