He says: "Contented poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it be contented, it is not poverty at all.
The thought for to-day is one which I discovered in Epicurus for I am wont to cross over even into the enemy's camp, – not as a deserter, but as a scout.
This is my own custom from the many things which I have read, I claim some one part for myself. Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day. So you should always read standard authors and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before. "But," you reply, "I wish to dip first into one book and then into another." I tell you that it is the sign of an overnice appetite to toy with many dishes for when they are manifold and varied, they cloy but do not nourish. And in reading of many books is distraction.Īccordingly, since you cannot read all the books which you may possess, it is enough to possess only as many books as you can read. There is nothing so efficacious that it can be helpful while it is being shifted about. Food does no good and is not assimilated into the body if it leaves the stomach as soon as it is eaten nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent change of medicine no wound will heal when one salve is tried after another a plant which is often moved can never grow strong. And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Be careful, however, lest this reading of many authors and books of every sort may tend to make you discursive and unsteady. The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. You do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit. Judging by what you write me, and by what I hear, I am forming a good opinion regarding your future. And if Alberta’s oil and gas industry isn’t being attacked by the openly hostile Liberal government in Ottawa, its being stymied by the other provinces.482792 Moral letters to Lucilius - Letter 2.
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The equalization system is full of baked-in inequalities that put Alberta at a disadvantage. The Senate … affords twice as many seats to Ontario and Quebec as all the western provinces combined. Our electoral system gives more weight to voters in Quebec and Atlantic Canada than in the West. Kline admits, “Alberta’s grievances are very real. And since Justin Trudeau became prime minister, the federal government has very openly done all it could to weaken Alberta, politically and economically. In many ways, the “constitutional order” has not worked for Alberta since the 1960s, at least. Talk about a central Canadian view of Confederation. Why did Kline take exception? Because such a provincial act would, in his opinion, “dismantle the constitutional order that, though not without its problems, has created a peaceful, prosperous and democratic country that has withstood the test of time.” Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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