La Petite Claudine: The perils of having a patron

The perils of having a patron

LPC en la biblioteca | Septiembre 20, 2009

None of the cruelties exercised by wealth and power upon indigence and dependence is more mischievous in its consequences, or more frequently practised with wanton negligence, than the encouragement of expectations which are never to be gratified, and the elation and depression of the heart by needless vicissitudes of hope and disappointment.

Every man is rich or poor, according to the proportion between his desires and enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession; and he that teaches another to long for what he shall never obtain, is no less an enemy to his quiet, than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

En plena posesión de sus facultades, Samuel Johnson acaba de cumplir 300.

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The perils of having a patron LPC en la biblioteca \| Septiembre 20, 2009 None of the cruelties exercised by wealth and power upon indigence and dependence is more mischievous in its consequences, or more frequently practised with wanton negligence, than the encouragement of expectations which are never to be gratified, and the elation and depression of the heart by needless vicissitudes of hope and disappointment. Every man is rich or poor, according to the proportion between his desires and enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession; and he that teaches another to long for what he shall never obtain, is no less an enemy to his quiet, than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony. En plena posesión de sus facultades, Samuel Johnson acaba de cumplir 300. MÁS centenarios: Brunel, Locke and Stephenson: the engineering giants who shaped our world	BUSCA en LPC ULTIMOS POSTS Esta mórbida sed de soluciones Todo cuanto se explica, en la belleza, ni explica la belleza, ni es lo bello; la parte que consiente... En Grand Central Station Yo descubrí a Ellizabeth Smart de rebote. Rondábamos los dieciocho y un novio al que le gustaba juzgar el libro... No puedo dejar de mirar Esto tiene que ser lo que ocurre cuando la gente de fuera del sistema solar intenta hacerse pasar por... Imbécil de la semana Esta ha sido la Olivetti Lettera 32 de Cormac McCarthy durante 50 años. Y esto es lo que dice... Fantasmas de la Movida Tomas alternativas de Branquias bajo el agua, inéditos de Décima Víctima, letras des-hechadas, directos y maquetas de Esclarecidos, Kaka de... ENVÍA ESTA ENTRADA A la dirección de correo: Tu dirección de correo: ¿Quieres incluir un mensaje? LPC en tu buzón Archivos