Networks and Translation within the Republic of Letters: The Case of Theodore Haak (1605–1690)

Abstract

Who or what is served by a talent wrapped in a handkerchief? It is better to have and to know less than to lack true joy, which consists in communicating, in doing good to others with my ability, and participating in this contentment which God Himself pursues, as it were, with such zeal and without in any way tiring of doing good, nay, not to the world's worst ingrate.