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Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-19 · 22:53 UTC

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Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-19 · 22:53 UTC

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Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-05 · 22:12 UTC

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy; he is always moving to a certain end, and when he has attained it, an end more distant invites him to a new pursuit.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-05 · 22:12 UTC

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy; he is always moving to a certain end, and when he has attained it, an end more distant invites him to a new pursuit.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-05 · 22:12 UTC

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy; he is always moving to a certain end, and when he has attained it, an end more distant invites him to a new pursuit.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-05 · 22:12 UTC

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy; he is always moving to a certain end, and when he has attained it, an end more distant invites him to a new pursuit.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-05-07 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 3.103 Pubbevasambodhasutta: Before Awakening

“Before my awakening… I thought: ‘What’s the gratification in the world?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-05-07 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 3.103 Pubbevasambodhasutta: Before Awakening

“Before my awakening… I thought: ‘What’s the gratification in the world?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-05-07 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 3.103 Pubbevasambodhasutta: Before Awakening

“Before my awakening… I thought: ‘What’s the gratification in the world?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-05-07 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 3.103 Pubbevasambodhasutta: Before Awakening

“Before my awakening… I thought: ‘What’s the gratification in the world?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-05-07 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 3.103 Pubbevasambodhasutta: Before Awakening

“Before my awakening… I thought: ‘What’s the gratification in the world?…”

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Comics and Jokes @ Lucentinian Works Co Ltd @[email protected] · 2025-05-06 · 18:04 UTC

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-04-09 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 23.5 Samaṇasutta: Ascetics and Brahmins

“There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape. …”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-04-09 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 23.5 Samaṇasutta: Ascetics and Brahmins

“There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape. …”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-04-09 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 23.5 Samaṇasutta: Ascetics and Brahmins

“There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape. …”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-04-09 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 23.5 Samaṇasutta: Ascetics and Brahmins

“There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape. …”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-04-09 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 23.5 Samaṇasutta: Ascetics and Brahmins

“There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape. …”

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Perceptions Today @[email protected] · 2025-03-01 · 15:40 UTC

We know #octopus are smart glad other cephalopods are getting recognition too!

We Already Knew That #Cephalopods Were Intelligent, but Not to This Extent: A #Cuttlefish Has Passed a Test Designed for #Children

#Scientists have long known that cuttlefish are #intelligent, but a new study reveals a skill no one expected. In a test originally designed for children, these #marine creatures displayed an astonishing level of self-control.

A new study has revealed that common #cuttlefish (#Sepia officinalis) are capable of delayed #gratification, a trait previously thought to be exclusive to intelligent #vertebrates.

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Perceptions Today @[email protected] · 2025-03-01 · 15:40 UTC

We know #octopus are smart glad other cephalopods are getting recognition too!

We Already Knew That #Cephalopods Were Intelligent, but Not to This Extent: A #Cuttlefish Has Passed a Test Designed for #Children

#Scientists have long known that cuttlefish are #intelligent, but a new study reveals a skill no one expected. In a test originally designed for children, these #marine creatures displayed an astonishing level of self-control.

A new study has revealed that common #cuttlefish (#Sepia officinalis) are capable of delayed #gratification, a trait previously thought to be exclusive to intelligent #vertebrates.

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/02/a-cuttlefish-has-passed-intelligent-test-designed-for-children/

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Perceptions Today @[email protected] · 2025-03-01 · 15:40 UTC

We know #octopus are smart glad other cephalopods are getting recognition too!

We Already Knew That #Cephalopods Were Intelligent, but Not to This Extent: A #Cuttlefish Has Passed a Test Designed for #Children

#Scientists have long known that cuttlefish are #intelligent, but a new study reveals a skill no one expected. In a test originally designed for children, these #marine creatures displayed an astonishing level of self-control.

A new study has revealed that common #cuttlefish (#Sepia officinalis) are capable of delayed #gratification, a trait previously thought to be exclusive to intelligent #vertebrates.

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/02/a-cuttlefish-has-passed-intelligent-test-designed-for-children/

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Perceptions Today @[email protected] · 2025-03-01 · 15:40 UTC

We know #octopus are smart glad other cephalopods are getting recognition too!

We Already Knew That #Cephalopods Were Intelligent, but Not to This Extent: A #Cuttlefish Has Passed a Test Designed for #Children

#Scientists have long known that cuttlefish are #intelligent, but a new study reveals a skill no one expected. In a test originally designed for children, these #marine creatures displayed an astonishing level of self-control.

A new study has revealed that common #cuttlefish (#Sepia officinalis) are capable of delayed #gratification, a trait previously thought to be exclusive to intelligent #vertebrates.

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/02/a-cuttlefish-has-passed-intelligent-test-designed-for-children/

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-02-20 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 12.53 Saṁyojanasutta: Fetters

“There are things that are prone to being fettered.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-02-20 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 12.53 Saṁyojanasutta: Fetters

“There are things that are prone to being fettered.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-02-20 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 12.53 Saṁyojanasutta: Fetters

“There are things that are prone to being fettered.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-02-20 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 12.53 Saṁyojanasutta: Fetters

“There are things that are prone to being fettered.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-02-20 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 12.53 Saṁyojanasutta: Fetters

“There are things that are prone to being fettered.…”

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-02-14 · 16:38 UTC

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TARTUFFE: Some joys, it’s true, are wrong in Heaven’s eyes;
Yet Heaven is not averse to compromise;
There is a science, lately formulated.
Whereby one’s conscience may be liberated,
And any wrongful act you care to mention
May be redeemed by purity of intention.
I’ll teach you. Madam, the secrets of that science;
Meanwhile, just place on me your full reliance.
Assuage my keen desires, and feel no dread:
The sin, if any, shall be on my head.

[Le ciel défend, de vrai, certains contentements;
Mais on trouve avec lui des accommodements.
Selon divers besoins, il est une science
D’étendre les liens de notre conscience,
Et de rectifier le mal de l’action
Avec la pureté de notre intention.
De ces secrets, madame, on saura vous instruire ;
Vous n’avez seulement qu’à vous laisser conduire.
Contentez mon désir, et n’ayez point d’effroi ;
Je vous réponds de tout, et prends le mal sur moi.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, Act 4, sc. 5 (1664) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-02-14 · 16:38 UTC

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TARTUFFE: Some joys, it’s true, are wrong in Heaven’s eyes;
Yet Heaven is not averse to compromise;
There is a science, lately formulated.
Whereby one’s conscience may be liberated,
And any wrongful act you care to mention
May be redeemed by purity of intention.
I’ll teach you. Madam, the secrets of that science;
Meanwhile, just place on me your full reliance.
Assuage my keen desires, and feel no dread:
The sin, if any, shall be on my head.

[Le ciel défend, de vrai, certains contentements;
Mais on trouve avec lui des accommodements.
Selon divers besoins, il est une science
D’étendre les liens de notre conscience,
Et de rectifier le mal de l’action
Avec la pureté de notre intention.
De ces secrets, madame, on saura vous instruire ;
Vous n’avez seulement qu’à vous laisser conduire.
Contentez mon désir, et n’ayez point d’effroi ;
Je vous réponds de tout, et prends le mal sur moi.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, Act 4, sc. 5 (1664) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/65413/

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-02-14 · 16:38 UTC

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TARTUFFE: Some joys, it’s true, are wrong in Heaven’s eyes;
Yet Heaven is not averse to compromise;
There is a science, lately formulated.
Whereby one’s conscience may be liberated,
And any wrongful act you care to mention
May be redeemed by purity of intention.
I’ll teach you. Madam, the secrets of that science;
Meanwhile, just place on me your full reliance.
Assuage my keen desires, and feel no dread:
The sin, if any, shall be on my head.

[Le ciel défend, de vrai, certains contentements;
Mais on trouve avec lui des accommodements.
Selon divers besoins, il est une science
D’étendre les liens de notre conscience,
Et de rectifier le mal de l’action
Avec la pureté de notre intention.
De ces secrets, madame, on saura vous instruire ;
Vous n’avez seulement qu’à vous laisser conduire.
Contentez mon désir, et n’ayez point d’effroi ;
Je vous réponds de tout, et prends le mal sur moi.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, Act 4, sc. 5 (1664) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/65413/

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-02-14 · 16:38 UTC

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TARTUFFE: Some joys, it’s true, are wrong in Heaven’s eyes;
Yet Heaven is not averse to compromise;
There is a science, lately formulated.
Whereby one’s conscience may be liberated,
And any wrongful act you care to mention
May be redeemed by purity of intention.
I’ll teach you. Madam, the secrets of that science;
Meanwhile, just place on me your full reliance.
Assuage my keen desires, and feel no dread:
The sin, if any, shall be on my head.

[Le ciel défend, de vrai, certains contentements;
Mais on trouve avec lui des accommodements.
Selon divers besoins, il est une science
D’étendre les liens de notre conscience,
Et de rectifier le mal de l’action
Avec la pureté de notre intention.
De ces secrets, madame, on saura vous instruire ;
Vous n’avez seulement qu’à vous laisser conduire.
Contentez mon désir, et n’ayez point d’effroi ;
Je vous réponds de tout, et prends le mal sur moi.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, Act 4, sc. 5 (1664) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/65413/

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