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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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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

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Culture
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Allan Bloom
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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers… of all men to the extent that they know. – Allan Bloom

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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. – Horace

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Expect poison from standing water. – William Blake

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

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. – Oscar Wilde

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