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Work title:
"On Happiness"
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Date: 58
"As in a tilled-field, when ploughed for corn, some flowers are found amongst it, and yet, though these posies may charm the eye, all this labour was not spent in order to produce them--the man who sowed the field had another object in view he gained this over and above it--so pleasure is not [th...
preview | full record— Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
Date: 1704
"Wherefore consecrate the first Fruits of Reason to God; you can't begin the Practice of Piety too soon, but may be too late; Nature untainted with Vice may be wrought with ease into any Form, and cast in any Mould"
preview | full record— Darrell, William (1651-1721)
Date: 1704
"Now I confess I am of Opinion, that the Mind is so far from being a Rasa Tabula, that it is plentifully furnished with all Ideas of Truth, which are the Seeds and Principles of all Knowledge we have, or ever shall have; that we cannot form any one true Notion, but what is founded in some ...
preview | full record— Sherlock, William (1639/40-1707)
