“A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.” IfsShouldUseBeautifulPoorPovertyTemptationBeautiful WomenHer BeautyCircumspection Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.” SelfBeautifulCitiesPovertyMaterialsDemandEthicsConsciousEssenceSimplicityPrioritiesConsumerismModerationVulgarDeliberateVowSelf ConsciousSuburbsOverconsumptionSuperfluousCabinsHomesteadingLog Cabins Author:David Shi
“There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.” Has BeensBeautifulJoyBeliefBeautyPovertySorrowCreaturesFellowsMedicineSicknessRichnessDelightedForsaken Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal
“I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.” MeanBeautifulPovertySupportDyingComputerUglyNoblePrimitiveBrutalNastyExtensionsSuspension Author:Robert Anton Wilson