Life is much more fun when you have to worry about money coming in.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Topic

Making a living Personal finances Work

Speaker

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Source

Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters

Genre

Biography

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

French

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

France Europe

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Citation

White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters. Harry N. Abrams, 1984, p. 175.

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

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English
Time
1603 1600s 17th century
Era
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Shakespeare, William. Troilus and Cressida. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1603, The Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Troilus and Cressida." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

Another quote originally in French

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Charles Baudelaire

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Personal growth Nature of progress Progress

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Charles Baudelaire
Language
French
Time
1887 1880s 19th century
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Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu. 1887, no. 15.

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Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees.

Paul Valéry

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Names Perception

Author

Paul Valéry
Medium
Essay
Statement Type
Paradox Zen koan
Language
French
Time
1936 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Valéry, Paul. Quoted in "Robert Irwin: A Way to Look at Things by Not Forgetting Their Names." by Adrian Kohn. Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. 1982.