The Madman Has Lost Everything Except His Reason | Sayings of the Sages pt. 8
Sharing with You the Wise Sayings I Find
Thinkers, scholars, scientists, philosophers, etc., used to assemble commonplace books around their interests and their fields of study and have them printed up to sell to the public in order that others might benefit from their selections and come to understand a bit more about their respective fields and/or glean wisdom from the sages of the past. The have been termed “printed commonplace books”.
Unfortunately the printed commonplace book has fallen out of fashion. This is lamentable! So, I’m bringing them back right here on my Substack!
“Sayings of the Sages” is the digital version of my commonplace book of wisdom. So if you’re interested in gleaning from the wisdom that I’ve gleaned, you’re in the right spot!
You can find the rest of the entries in my subsection HERE.
I’ve also started to literally print up my commonplace book of wisdom in my brand new personal magazine called Proverb Peddling. In issue 1, I include a Sayings of the Sages section with about 60 wise sayings from my commonplace book of wisdom. I’m really excited about this project and I’m going to continue to print these digital entries in future issues of my physical magazine. Check out the physical magazine below and grab yourself a copy while I still have some in stock here:
These commonplace book entries are for my paid subscribers—it’s one of the many perks I offer those who help me support my family through the life of the mind—but I will give my free subs a sententia of Boethius to wet your beak and hopefully a few more of you will want to up grade to a paid subscription in order to help support my work.
Sayings of The Sages - pt. 8
But riches are unable to quench insatiable greed; power does not make a man master of himself if he is imprisoned by the indissoluble chains of wicked lusts; and when high office is bestowed on unworthy men, so far from making them worthy, it only betrays them and reveals their unworthiness. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, 39 (Penguin Classics)