DAY 323
Essays
Essayes
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
What is the most practical and clear-headed wisdom needed to navigate a complex world?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I first opened this book, the sentences falling clean and decisive snapped my mind awake like cold ice water. Bacon's insight treats not some cloud-grasping morality, but the thoroughly practical and useful art of living. His gaze, running through every theme of human affairs—truth, death, love, power—is at times sharp to the point of cruelty. His wisdom, which sets emotion aside and pierces to the essence of things, becomes a powerful compass for living, no matter the age.
— ONGO · Curator
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."Francis Bacon, Essays
"어떤 책들은 맛만 보아야 하고, 어떤 책들은 삼켜야 하며, 소수의 책들은 씹어서 소화시켜야 한다."
🌱Apply It Today
Before making a hasty, emotion-driven decision, practice stepping back and weighing the gains, losses, and essence of the situation with reason.
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✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
天生緣分
Made in Heaven, Met on Earth
천생연분 · destined bond
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