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To: miserare

—”Laborare est Orare.”

Another good phrase, but with a dreadful association.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei
“The expression comes from the title of an 1873 novel by German philologist Lorenz Diefenbach, Arbeit macht frei: Erzählung von Lorenz Diefenbach, in which gamblers and fraudsters find the path to virtue through labour.[2][3] The phrase was also used in French (le travail rend libre!) by Auguste Forel, a Swiss entomologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist, in his Fourmis de la Suisse (English: Ants of Switzerland) (1920).[4] In 1922, the Deutsche Schulverein of Vienna, an ethnic nationalist “protective” organization of Germans within Austria, printed membership stamps with the phrase Arbeit macht frei.


26 posted on 09/19/2022 3:58:18 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I learned it from the Rule of Saint Benedict.

Working for a living is a well-known virtue in the Catholic faith.

Sorry it has been misused by some atheist.


33 posted on 09/19/2022 4:02:58 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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