Must of the recent time has been spent finishing Spinoza's 'Ethics' and moving through Derrida's 'Spurs,' but a quote from Spinoza which is due a great deal of attention:
'Wherefore it is certain that those, who cry out the loudest against the misuse of honor and the vanity of the world, are those who most greedily covet it. This is not peculiar to the ambitious, but is common to all who are ill-used by fortune, and who are infirm in spirit. For a poor man also, who is miserly, will talk incessantly of the misuse of wealth and of the vices of the rich; whereby he merely torments himself, and shows the world that he is intolerant, not only of his own poverty, but also of other people's riches' - The Ethics, 260
Much reflection on this to come.
Spinoza, Benedict. The Ethics. Trans: R.H.M. Elwes. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1989.
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