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“Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.”

Art Lying Dies Sleep Common Security Wit Ease Buried Careless Sloth Moths

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence”

Firsts Lying Instinct Ill Contact Ease Sensitive Attributes Vivid Cleanliness Filth First Contact

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.”

Soul Lying Energy Path Duty Obstacles Ease Acquire Chastity Abode

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.”

Source: Selected essays

“the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.”

Lying Taste Dignity Essence Ease Pretense Vulgarity Pretence

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters