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On every episode of Proverbial, teacher and author Joshua Gibbs (How to Be Unlucky: Reflections on the Pursuit of Virtue and Something They Will Not Forget: A Handbook for Classical Teachers) explores a single proverb, some old bit of wisdom, and tries to discern what it means for modern men.
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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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Should you stay or should you go? Burke weighs in. Gibbs weighs in.
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The chip stains and grease will come out in the bath. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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Institutions fall apart like men, men fall apart like institutions. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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It's hard to be good, but it's still way easier than we want to admit. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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A heartbreaking saying from Socrates explains "home culture." Joshua Gibbs explains.
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Christmas comes just once a year, but why? Joshua Gibbs here explains.
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This episode required more than 30 takes. Was it worth it? Listen for yourself.
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The longer you think about it, the more disturbing it gets.
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One of the most commonly traded quotes in classical Christian education gets the Proverbial treatment.
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Don't do it like that. Do it like this. Joshua Gibbs explains why.
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What in the world does "There's more than one way to skin a cat" mean? Joshua Gibbs explains.
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Instant karma isn't going to get you. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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One of the best known proverbs about "the past" gets the Proverbial treatment.
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Everybody lies to doctors. And teachers. And plumbers. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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There are a few words which are not slurs, obscenities, vulgarities, or blasphemies which have nonetheless been banned by Christians for public usage. It's really too bad. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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There are times when the anticipation is the best part. Why? Joshua Gibbs investigates.
There's nothing better for a man than trying hard and failing miserably. Joshua Gibbs explains it all.
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"A bad workman blames his tools" often conjures images of plumbers and carpenters, but it's about every sort of person who undertakes a task. Joshua Gibbs explains.
There's something sort of exciting about the movies, books, and films that are released this year. They're new, they're now. But do exciting thigns usually pan out well in the long run? Joshua Gibbs investigates.
How will your children evaluate your parenting skills when they don't need you anymore? Joshua Gibbs explores.
They don't cook. They don't clean. They don't pay rent. Still, we need children. Joshua Gibbs explains.
Tis the season to say, "It's the thought that counts." Joshua Gibbs explains.
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"Cleanliness is next to godliness" isn't in the Bible, except it sort of is. Joshua Gibbs explains.
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It's fine. Don't mess with it. Just leave it alone. There are so many ways to say, "I love you."
When I was young I would tell my father, "I want something to eat," and he would reply, "How does it feel to want?" I would groan and roll my eyes. It's an interesting question, though.
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Why are people miserable? Is it fate? Is it bad luck? Is it biological? Former American president James Garfield didn't think so.
A proverb from Stendahl explains why social media is so bad for mid-level Christian intellectuals. Hopefully no one too famous is listening.
Among other things, a reflection on the profound effect "The Last Broadcast" had on Gibbs when he was 21.
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People often say that Jackson Pollock's work is "actually quite good." No one ever says this about Rembrandt, though. No "actually" is necessary. Wonder why? Joshua Gibbs looks into it.
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When a child becomes so sick that it may die, what do the parents say to themselves? Joshua Gibbs explores with a famous quotation from Menander.
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You may have actually figured out a few things that your parents didn't understand. Don't get cocky. Joshua Gibbs explains.
Is it better to find yourself, to lose yourself, or to be yourself? What if none of these really works? Joshua Gibbs explores.
"Don't shoot the messenger" seems like obvious advice, so why are we even tempted to shoot poor, helpless messengers? We have our reasons, though. Joshua Gibbs explores.
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"You can't have your cake and eat it too," so which is better? Having it or eating it? Joshua Gibbs explores.
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," although this episode is about an entirely different (every day) proverb.
From time to time, everyone has to phone it in. In this episode, Joshua Gibbs has a few consoling words to say about failing others and being failed by others. Be warmed and filled.
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks," but it's better this way. Joshua Gibbs explains why.
Is your church lucky to have you as a member? With the help of a famous proverb, Joshua Gibbs helps you determine the answer.
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"Can I help you find something?" asks the Total Wine employee. Regardless of how you reply, there's a good chance you'll be led to the same boring bottle. Why? Because beauty has her defense mechanisms. Joshua Gibbs explores.
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Every human judgement is based on incomplete data. A proverb from psychologist William James helps us sort out this vexing truth.
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Young men should move out when they hit 18 or 19 even though it's cheaper to live at home. Why? This week's proverb from the Comtesse De Lafayette explores the answer.
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"Don't put all your eggs in one basket," they say, but why? Thisbasket is different. It can't be dropped. Or can it? Joshua Gibbs wants to know more.
This week's proverb is unattributed and goes like this: "you know what they say." Joshua Gibbs contemplates what it has to say for modern men and women.
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"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it," says Solomon, but what happens between childhood and old age? A vexing lot, actually. Joshua Gibbs investigates.
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"Fortune favors the brave," but is favor all fortune can offer? Does fortune not love the brave? Does fortune not vindicate the brave? Joshua Gibbs inquires further.
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"The squeaky wheel gets the grease" isn't just good career advice, it's a helpful perspective on humility. Joshua Gibbs explores.
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“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them," said La Rochefoucauld. In this episode of Proverbial, Joshua Gibbs discusses the dangers of pleasures sought in secret.
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"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves," said La Rochefoucauld, thus referencing the troubled relationship between pleasure and wisdom. Joshua Gibbs investigates.
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"God works in mysterious ways." Join Joshua Gibbs as he explores the meaning behind this common saying.
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"Too many cooks spoil the broth," but what about teamwork? Is there not wisdom in a multitude of counselors? Gibbs explores.
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"Big book, big bore," said Callimachus. Everyone loves a shorty, though. Joshua Gibbs tells all in the latest episode of Proverbial.
"The best revenge is a life well lived," said George Herbert. Why do other sorts of revenge fall short of good old-fashioned happiness and contentment? Joshua Gibbs investigates.
In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.” Joshua Gibbs investigates.
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“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things," claimed Jean de La Bruyere. Joshua Gibbs investigates.
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible," said Stanislaw Lec. This isn't just a proverb about riots and mobs, though. It's about our guilty pleasures. Joshua Gibbs examines.
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"Don't smile before Christmas" is a common proverb traded by veteran teachers. It is a saying which is particularly offensive to an egalitarian age. Joshua Gibbs explores.
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"You can't make everybody happy all the time," but why would any sane person try? Join Joshua Gibbs as he considers the paradoxes of human happiness.
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"May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese curse. Why? What's so bad about interesting things? Tolstoy is interesting, right? Joshua Gibbs investigates.
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"The art of living is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much," claimed William Hazlitt. Join Joshua Gibbs as he mulls over this proverb.
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"God doesn't give with both hands" is unusual because very few proverbs refer to God. Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates this hard saying.
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Jane Austen wrote, "The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient - at others, so bewildered and so weak - and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! - We are to be sure a miracle every way - but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out." In this episode, Gibbs tells a single story from a difficult summer when he believed his life was ending.
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"Birds of a feather flock together." This is a hard saying for social engineers of all sorts, especially teachers and party hosts. Join Joshua Gibbs as he unpacks this surprisingly confrontational saying.
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"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see," said Chesterton. Over the last ten years, travel has become mixed up with the self-care and wellness movement. In the latest episode of Proverbial, Joshua Gibbs attempts to save travel from modern cliches.
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"No man is so completely happy that something somewhere does not clash with his condition," taught Boethius. How do we live at peace with this truth? Can we? Joshua Gibbs talks himself through these questions on the latest episode of Proverbial.
"He who has much, wants much," said Boethius. In this episode, Joshua Gibbs explains suffering and want with a story about his acquisition of an iPod in 2004.
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"Bad fortune is of more use to men than good fortune," teaches Boethius, but he doesn't mean we should learn from our mistakes. Join Joshua Gibbs as he explores this vexing saying from the great Roman philosopher.
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"Don't burn your bridges" began as a saying of military generals on war campaigns, but is now primarily understood advice pertaining to professional relationships. Join Joshua Gibbs as he explores this timeless saying.
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"Choose your battles carefully" is not the most misunderstood proverb, but it has become the most commonly misapplied. Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates this saying and what it means for contemporary Christians.
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"Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother," said Cotton Mather. What does this proverb teach us about piety, money, and bad parenting? Join Joshua Gibbs as he explores the matter.
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This week's proverb comes from Sir Thomas Gresham: "Bad money drives out good money." Join Joshua Gibbs as he talks about "bad money" and what it has to do with bad students, bad teachers, and bad love.
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This week's proverb is anonymous but you know it: "seek of the devil and he doth appear." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes to us via Solomon, who said, "Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb come from Socrates, who said that "the unexamined life is not worth living." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to teach modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is in unattributed, but goes like this: "Money can't buy you happiness." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
This week's proverb comes to us from Nicholas Gomez Davila, who said that "dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from Benjamin Franklin who once said that, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is unattributed and it quite famous. It goes, "the Grass is always greener on the other side." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from Jean-Baptise Alphonse Karr, who said that, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes via William Hazlitt, a British essayist and philosopher who wrote that, "violent antipathies are always suspicious and betray a secret affinity." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is unattributed (thought it is English). It goes, "children should be seen and not heard." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this poem has to say to modern men and women. Proverbial is produced by Goldberry Studios for the CiRCE Podcast Network.
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This week's proverb comes to us from Thomas Aquinas who wrote, "I fear the man of one book." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from German philosopher and writer, Goethe: "We can't form our children on our own concepts. We must take them and love them as God gives them to us." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes via political philosopher Edumnd Burke who wrote, "A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views." Join Joshua Gibbs as he explores what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from Dante: "Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind leaving on earth no more memorial than foam in water or smoke upon the wind." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is anonymous (but very well known): The apple does not fall far from the tree. Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is unattributed and it goes like this: "No good deed goes unpunished."
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This week's Proverb comes from Goethe: “Man’s good intentions, resolutions that always succumb to ingrained habit, are like the cleaning, scrubbing and adorning that we practice on Sundays, holidays, and feast days. We always get dirty again, to be sure, but such a partial cleaning process has the advantage of upholding the principle of cleanliness.”
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This week's proverb is from Jonathan Swift: "life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb, which is unattributed, is "let sleeping dogs lie." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is unattributed: "Youth is wasted on the young." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is unattributed: "the clothes make the man." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from Dante, that great Italian writer, who wrote, "if the will won't will, nothing can force it." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is unattributed: "hunger is the best sauce." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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In this week's episode Joshua Gibbs contemplates Solomon's famous "there is a time" proverb from Scripture. Join him as he contemplates what this passage has to say for modern men and women.
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This weeks' proverb is unattributed: "happy wife, happy life." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from composer Gustav Mahler, who said that "tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. And if you like the show please leave a rating or a review wherever you get podcasts.
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This week's proverb is unattributed and says: "if all men were angels no government would be necessary." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is unattributed, but it goes like this: "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.
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This week's proverb is from Jules Renard, who said: "To have a horror of the bourgeoisie is bourgeoisie." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes to us via Solomon who wrote: "The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth the brilliant or favor to the learned, but time and chance happen to them all." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
This week's proverb comes to us by way of Dr. Samuel Johnson and it goes like this: "He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplaltes what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's (very famous) proverb comes from William Shakespeare and his play, As You Like It. It says, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from the Roman writer, Seneca, who said that "to repay a favor too quickly is ingratitude." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates with this proverb has to say to modern men and women. And if you like this episode be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts.
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This week's proverb is an old Jewish saying: "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entirely." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from Leo Tolstoy, that famous Russian novelist, who once wrote that "all happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
This week's proverb is unattributed but quite famous: "Desperate times call for desperate measures." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to offer modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from Alfred Lord Tennyson, the famous English poet, who once opined that "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from the Roman scholar Cicero who said, "I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to offer modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from that famous American essayist, Ralph WaldoEmerson: "I pay the school master but 'tis the school boys who educate my son."
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This week's proverb comes from England but is unattributed. It goes like this: "the cobbler's children have no shoes." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates the nature of this proverb and what it has to say for modern men and women.
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Today's proverb comes from George Orwell: The aim of the a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded. Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates this saying and what it can offer modern men.
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This episode's proverb comes from Goethe: "a man does not mind being blamed for his faults and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers for them, but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates the implications of this proverb for modern men.
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This week proverb comes by way of English essayist, William Hazlitt, who wrote that, "he will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men.
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This week's (highly disputed) proverb is unattributed but well known. It say, "time heals all wounds." Join Josh Gibbs as he contemplates the implications of the proverb for modern man.
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This week's proverb comes from Edmund Burke. It goes like this: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
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This week's proverb comes from Solomon: "Do not pay attention to every word people say or you may hear your servant cursing you, for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others."
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This week's proverb is from French playwright, Albert Guinon: "People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company."
Today's proverb comes from Pericles. Here it is: "Wait for the wisest of counselors, time." Join Josh as he contemplates what this proverb means for modern men.
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This week's proverb is commonly attributed to Saint Ambrose: "When in Rome, do as the Romans Do."
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This week's proverb comes from, well, almost everyone. It's the saying, "life goes on." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what in the world this proverb means (and whether it's even a proverb at all) and what it has to say to modern man.
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This week's proverb is a French proverb without any known attribution: "To understand all is to forgive all." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
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This week's proverb comes from an unknown English source: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
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This week's proverb comes from Hesiod, in Works and Days: "Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent but midways be sparing. It is poor saving when you come to lees."
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This week's proverb comes from Petrarch: "To be able to say how much you love is to love but little." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates the philosophical and practical implications of this proverb.
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In this week's episode, Joshua Gibbs contemplates a proverb from Horace: "our fathers age was worse than ours grandfathers, we, worse than they, bring forth an offspring still more advanced than ourselves in evil."
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Welcome back to Proverbial with Joshua Gibbs. In this episode, Joshua contemplates a proverb from Cicero, who said that he was " . . . never less idle than when wholly idle, never less alone than when wholly alone." Joshua contemplates the implications of this proverb for modern man.
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Welcome back to Proverbial with Joshua Gibbs. In this episode, Joshua contemplates a proverb from Jesus Christ who said that, "a Prophet is not without honor except within his own country." Joshua contemplates the context of this proverb and what it means for common contemporary people.
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Welcome to the first episode of Proverbial with Joshua Gibbs. In episode one, Joshua contemplates a proverb from the Roman poet, Horace. He wrote, "You may drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps coming back." Josh explores the origin of this quote, why he has been living his life according to it, and what it means for normal, average people in this contemporary age.
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Proverbial is a new podcast from the CiRCE Institute Podcast Network featuring Joshua Gibbs. Weekly, coming in October.
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