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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Montaigne

We readily inquire, “Does he know Greek or Latin?” “Can he write poetry and prose?” But what matters most is what we put last: “Has he become better and wiser?” We ought to find out not who understands most but who understands best. We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding and the sense of right and wrong empty.
 
[Nous enquerons volontiers, Sçait-il du Grec ou du Latin ? escrit-il en vers ou en prose ? mais, s’il est devenu meilleur ou plus advisé, c’estoit le principal, & c’est ce qui demeure derriere. Il falloit s’enquerir qui est mieux sçavant, non qui est plus sçavant. Nous ne travaillons qu’à remplir la memoire, & laissons l’entendement & la conscience vuide.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (yyyy), “Of Pedantry[Du pedantisme] (1572-1578), Essays, Book 1, ch. 24 (1.24) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987), ch. 25]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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Serenity Meditations

Stardust podcast

Vibration,  light, and frequency.

Debra Rashidi

And

Yogi Sanjivana

Video link :
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Debra Rashidi
Contact:
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Youtube:
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And
Yogi Sanjivana
sanjivana.com/contact

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Ed Wiebe

I noticed our $500 espresso machine is four years old. We average two lattes per day so it has cost us about 17¢ per latte.

What about coffee and milk? Those come out to 71¢ and 36¢ per latte.

The total is $1.24 per.

We've made 2912 lattes at home. At $4.95 by the each that comes to $14 414 had we bought them prepared by others.

So, by buying a machine, and not buying coffee out, we've 'saved' $10 790.

Unfortunately, that's gone into groceries this year alone.

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Dinkenfunkle

Delighted to find out that Confucius also had catty moments ...

in 3.1 of The Analects we are given:

"Master Kong said: The Ji family has 8 rows of dancers performing in the courtyard. If this can be endured, what cannot be endured?"

Well really ... 8 rows! 😮

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(yes, I know there is a serious explanation to it. don't care.)

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