Peter Fitzgerald-Moore wrote:
>
> Roger Hill's brilliantly succinct history of attitudes to work excited
> my admiration. However, an admoniton contrary to what he presents as the
> Roman view is expressed in the verse:
> Sensim sed propere fluit, irremeabilis hora
> Consule ne perdas, absque labore diem.
> Since I learned this seventy years ago, I have forgotten the date and
> source. Perhaps Hill or someone else on the list could provide these?
> (My rough translation is "Slowly but surely the irrevocable hours slip
> by; be sure you do not let a day pass without work.)
> Peter Fitzgerald-Moore
Ah, but what is *work*?
I would interpret it as properly naming only that
process which produces *works* (as in: Bach's works).
Or, as Nietzsche's Zarathustra said;
What need have I for happiness?
I have my work.
+\brad mccormick
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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