Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy spending so much time trying to pay the rent all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Reading solitude idleness a soft and sedentary life intercourse with...
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Virtue is a state of war and to live in it we have always to combat with...
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not...
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why...
