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Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste a

Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment. – Allan Bloom

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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom

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Ignorance & Stupidity
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. – Allan Bloom

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Prejudice
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. – Proverb

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It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. – Saint Jerome

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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. – Lord Chesterfield

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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. – Cyril Connolly

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