{"id":5090,"date":"2017-11-01T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/false-expectation\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:02:54","slug":"false-expectation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/false-expectation\/","title":{"rendered":"False Expectation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">He who expects all of life to be both wise and philosophical is neither.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Modeled on Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Nessun maggior segno d&#39;essere poco filosofo e poco savio, che volere savia e filosofica tutta la vita.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">There&#39;s no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">(Giacomo Leopardi,&#0160;<em>Pensieri<\/em>, tr. W. S. Di Piero, Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1981, p. 69) Do you see how the translation imports an ambiguity that is not present in the Italian original?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He who expects all of life to be both wise and philosophical is neither. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Modeled on Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837): Nessun maggior segno d&#39;essere poco filosofo e poco savio, che volere savia e filosofica tutta la vita. There&#39;s no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/false-expectation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;False Expectation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}