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Dignity and ignorance.—When we begin to understand we grow polite, happy, ingenious; and when we have sufficiently learnt and trained our eyes and ears, our souls show greater suppleness and charm. But we understand so little and are so inadequately taught, wherefore we rarely happen to embrace the thing which is apt to make us lovable ; on the contrary, we stiffly and indifferently pass by the eities, mature and history, at the same time thinking very highly of this stiff aid indifferent bearing, as though it evinced superiority. Nay, our ignorance and intellectual love of knowledge have altogether acquired the habit of flaunting about as dignity and character.
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A cheap mode of life.—The cheapest aid most unsophisticated mode of life is certainly that of the thinker; for, to begin by mentioning the most important feature, he first and foremost stands in need of those very things which others slight and abandon. Secondly: he is easily pleased and does not ask for any expensive spices of pleasure; his task is not arduous, but as it were southern; his days and nights are not wasted by remorse; he moves, eats, drinks and sleeps in proportion as his intellect grows calmer, stronger and clearer ; he rejoices in his body and has
