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Iamblichus
Iamblichus
3 weeks ago
They also gave it the title...

They also gave it the title of "opinion," because truth and falsity lie in opinion. And they called it "movement," "generation," "change," "division," "length," "multiplication," "addition," "kinship," "relativity," "the ratio in proportionality." For the relation of two numbers is of every conceivable form.

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On the Dyad
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
5 months 1 day ago
... a penny saved is better...

... a penny saved is better than a penny earned.

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The Duty of a Husband and Wife (17 March 1539), No. 4408. LW 54:337
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
3 months 2 weeks ago
It is a woman's outstanding characteristic...

It is a woman's outstanding characteristic that she can do anything for the love of a man. But those women who can achieve something important for the love of a thing are most exceptional, because this does not really agree with their nature. Love for a thing is a man's prerogative. But since masculine and feminine elements are united in our human nature, a man can live in the feminine part of himself, I and a woman in her masculine part. None the less the feminine element in man is only something in the background, as is the masculine element in woman. If one lives out the opposite sex in oneself one is living in one's own background, and one's real individuality suffers. A man should live as a man and a woman as a woman.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
3 weeks 2 days ago
Among the sayings and discourses imputed...

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross; restore to Him the former, and leave the latter to the stupidity of some, and roguery of others of His disciples. Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus. These palpable interpolations and falsifications of His doctrines, led me to try to sift them apart.

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Letter to William Short
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 months 3 weeks ago
Example is the school of mankind,...

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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No. 1, volume v, p. 331
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comfortdragon
comfortdragon
1 month 3 weeks ago
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
3 months 3 weeks ago
I am aware that the age...

I am aware that the age is not what we all wish. But I am sure, that the only means of checking its precipitate degeneracy, is heartily to concur with whatever is the best in our time; and to have some more correct standard of judging what that best is, than the transient and uncertain favour of a court. If once we are able to find, and can prevail on ourselves to strengthen an union of such men, whatever accidentally becomes indisposed to ill-exercised power, even by the ordinary operation of human passions, must join with that society, and cannot long be joined, without in some degree assimilating to it. Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough, (and for a worthy man perhaps too much,) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostacy.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
4 months 2 weeks ago
Philosophical problems can be compared to...

Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

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Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 175
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
5 months 3 weeks ago
People who want to do so...

People who want to do so can lose weight most safely and permanently if they realize that above all they must be patient. ... It is better to eat a little less at each meal than impulse would suggest and to do that constantly. Add to this a little more exercise or activity than impulse suggests and keep that up constantly too. A few less calories taken in each day and a few more used up will decrease weight, slowly, to be sure, but without undue misery. And with better long-range results too.

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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
4 months 3 weeks ago
It is not because men's desires...

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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On Liberty, 1859
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Aristotle
Aristotle
5 months 3 weeks ago
Universal is known according to reason,...

Universal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense...

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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
4 months 5 days ago
It is not proper either to...

It is not proper either to have a blunt sword or to use freedom of speech ineffectually. Neither is the sun to be taken from the world, nor freedom of speech from erudition.

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As quoted in the translation of Thomas Taylor
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
2 months 1 week ago
Let us endeavour for a moment...

Let us endeavour for a moment to disconnect our thinking selves from the mask of humanity; let us imagine ourselves scientific Saturnians, if you will, fairly acquainted with such animals as now inhabit the Earth, and employed in discussing the relations they bear to a new and singular 'erect and featherless biped,' which some enterprising traveller, overcoming the difficulties of space and gravitation, has brought from that distant planet for our inspection, well preserved, may be, in a cask of rum.

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Ch.2, p. 85
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
5 months 3 weeks ago
Forgetting our intentions is the most...
Forgetting our intentions is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
2 months 1 week ago
If...we look at the essential characteristics...

If...we look at the essential characteristics of the Whig and the Tory, we may consider each of them as the representative of a great principle, essential to the welfare of nations. One is, in an especial manner, the guardian of liberty, and the other, of order. One is the moving power, and the other the steadying power of the state. One is the sail, without which society would make no progress, the other the ballast, without which there would be small safety in a tempest.

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The Earl of Chatham', The Edinburgh Review (October 1844), quoted in T. B. Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review: A New Edition (1852), p. 725
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Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
1 month 3 days ago
In the presence of the total...

In the presence of the total reality upon which our conduct is founded, our knowledge is characterized by peculiar limitations and aberrations. We cannot say in principle that "error is life and knowledge is death," because a being involved in persistent errors would continually act wide of the purpose, and would thus inevitably perish.

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p. 444
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
2 months 3 weeks ago
I know that my unity with...

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

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My Religion (1884)
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Leszek Kołakowski
Leszek Kołakowski
1 month 2 weeks ago
In 1903 there appeared Problems of...

In 1903 there appeared Problems of Idealism, a collection of essays many of whose authors had recently been Marxists, but which condemned Marxism and materialism for their moral nihilism, contempt of personality, determinism, and fanatical pursuit of social values regardless of the individuals who made up society; they also attacked Marxism for its uncritical worship of progress and sacrifice of the present to the future.

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(pp. 420-1)
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John Rawls
John Rawls
4 months 3 weeks ago
The suppression of liberty is always...

The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.

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Chapter IV, Section 33, p. 210
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Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
3 months 4 weeks ago
We are all instruments endowed with...

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

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"Conversation Between D'Alembert and Diderot"
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
5 months 3 weeks ago
The two guides call out to...

The two guides call out to a man early and late. And yet, no, for when remorse calls to a man it is always late. The call to find the way again by seeking out God in the confession of sins is always at the eleventh hour. Whether you are young or old, whether you have sinned much or little, whether you have offended much or neglected much, the guilt makes this call come at the eleventh hour. The inner agitation of the heart understands what remorse insists upon, that the eleventh hour has come. For in the sense of time, the old man's age is the eleventh hour; and the instant of death, the final moment in the eleventh hour. The indolent youth speaks of a long life that lies before him. The indolent old man hopes that his death is still a long way off. But repentance and remorse belong to the eternal in a man.

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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
1 month 1 week ago
Things that were hard….

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
3 months 6 days ago
The real pioneers in ideas, in...

The real pioneers in ideas, in art and in literature have remained aliens to their time, misunderstood and repudiated.

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Karl Popper
Karl Popper
4 months 3 weeks ago
Good tests kill flawed theories; we...

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

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As quoted in My Universe : A Transcendent Reality (2011) by Alex Vary, Part II
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
2 months 3 weeks ago
Nothing in this book is true.

Nothing in this book is true.

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William Whewell
William Whewell
3 weeks 2 days ago
In 'voluntary' motions, Sensations produce Actions,...

In 'voluntary' motions, Sensations produce Actions, and the connexion is made by means of Ideas: in 'reflected' motions, the connexion neither seems to be nor is made by means of Ideas: in 'instinctive' motions, the connexion is such as requires Ideas, but we cannot believe the Ideas to exist.

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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno
3 months 1 week ago
These terrible sociologists, who are the...

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

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Fanatical Skepticism
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
3 months 2 weeks ago
The vicious circle of dread of...

The vicious circle of dread of war which leads the nations to arm themselves for self-protection, with the result that bloated armaments ultimately lead to the war which they were intended to avert, can be broken in either of two conceivable ways. There might arise a unique world power, brought into being by the unification of all those now in possession of weapons, and equipped with the capacity to forbid the lesser and unarmed nations to make war. On the other hand, it may arise by the working of a fate to us still inscrutable which, out of ruin, will disclose a way towards the development of a new human being. To will the discovery of this way would be blind impotence, but those who do not wish to deceive themselves will be prepared for the possibility.

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Horace
Horace
4 months 1 week ago
You may drive out….

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

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Book I, epistle x, line 24
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
2 weeks 6 days ago
Look to the essence of a...

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

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VIII, 22
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4 months 3 weeks ago
You will hear every day the...

You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. "What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?" men will ask, with derision. If, nevertheless, God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true. When you shall say, "As others do, so will I. I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions; I must eat the good of the land, and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season." - then dies the man in you; then once more perish the buds of art, and poetry, and science, as they have died already in a thousand thousand men. The hour of that choice is the crisis of your history; and see that you hold yourself fast by the intellect. ... Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in Nature, to be its tongue to the heart of man, and to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom.

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Joseph de Maistre
Joseph de Maistre
3 weeks ago
Genius does not seem to derive...

Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.

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Tenth Dialogue
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Max Stirner
Max Stirner
1 month 1 week ago
If religion has put forward the...

If religion has put forward the proposition that we are all of us sinners, I set another against it: we are all of us perfect! Because, in each moment, we are all we can be, and never need to be more.

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Landstreicher, p. 226
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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
4 months 3 weeks ago
All that we call human history-money,...

All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

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Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
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Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger
1 month 1 week ago
No man can have….

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
3 weeks 2 days ago
Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to...

Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

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Letter to Andrew Jackson
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
3 months 3 weeks ago
Blessed be the hour in which...

Blessed be the hour in which I was first led to inquire into my own spiritual nature and destination! All my doubts are removed; I know what I can know, and have no fears for what I cannot know. I am satisfied; perfect clearness and harmony reign in my soul, and a new and more glorious existence begins for me. My entire destiny I cannot comprehend; what I am to become, exceeds my present power of conception. A part, which is concealed from me, is visible to the father of spirits. I know only that it is secure, everlasting and glorious. That part of it which is confided to me I know, for it is the root of all my other knowledge.

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Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p.120
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
4 months 3 weeks ago
To him who looks upon the...

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 months 2 weeks ago
Give us grace and strength to...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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Prayer, inscribed on the bronze memorial to Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
4 months 3 weeks ago
Although usury is itself a form...

Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.

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Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 455.
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An autistic 16 year old was taking food from the deli over 3 months. They tracked how much he took, and when he had crossed a certain threshold, the had him arrested. There was another employee who was also part of the entrapment scheme.

The general vibe around the boycott is, these are poor workers, scraping by on minimum level wages. The multi billion dollar corporation follows the law absolutely when it comes to you, but we all know it's not so cut and dry at the top.

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Henry George
Henry George
3 weeks 1 day ago
It is impossible to read the...

It is impossible to read the works of the economists who since the time of Smith have endeavored to build up and elucidate the science of political economy without seeing how, over and over again, they stumble over the law of wages without once recognizing it. Yet, "if it were a dog it would bite them!" Indeed, it is difficult to resist the impression that some of them really saw this law of wages, but, fearful of the practical conclusions to which it would lead, preferred to ignore and cover it up, rather than use it as the key to problems which without it are so perplexing. A great truth to an age which has rejected and trampled on it, is not a word of peace, but a sword!

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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
3 months 1 week ago
A clash of doctrines is not...

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster - it is an opportunity.

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Ch. 12: "Religion and Science", p. 259
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
1 month 2 weeks ago
I think he once told us...

I think he once told us his first short clothes were a hull made mostly or wholly of leather. We all only laughed, for it is now long ago. Thou dear father! Through what stern obstructions was thy way to manhood to be forced, and for us and for our travelling to be made smooth!

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Confucius
Confucius
5 months 1 week ago
Men all say, "We are wise";...

Men all say, "We are wise"; but being driven forward and taken in a net, a trap, or a pitfall, they know not how to escape. Men all say, "We are wise"; but happening to choose the course of the Mean, they are not able to keep it for a round month.

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Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
3 months 1 week ago
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence....

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

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David Hume
David Hume
4 months 3 weeks ago
Morality is a subject that interests...

Morality is a subject that interests us above all others: We fancy the peace of society to be at stake in every decision concerning it; and 'tis evident, that this concern must make our speculations appear more real and solid, than where the subject is, in a great measure, indifferent to us. What affects us, we conclude can never be a chimera; and as our passion is engag'd on the one side or the other, we naturally think that the question lies within human comprehension; which, in other cases of this nature, we are apt to entertain some doubt of. Without this advantage I never should have ventur'd upon a third volume of such abstruse philosophy, in an age, wherein the greatest part of men seem agreed to convert reading into an amusement, and to reject every thing that requires any considerable degree of attention to be comprehended.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
3 months 4 weeks ago
The errors of Communism must be...

The errors of Communism must be rectified; but there is no necessity for giving up the name, which is a simple assertion of the paramount importance of Social Feeling. However, now that we have happily passed from monarchy to republicanism, the name of Communist is no longer indispensable; the word Republican expresses the meaning as well, and without the same danger. Positivism, then, has nothing to fear from Communism; on the contrary, it will probably be accepted by most Communists among the working classes, especially in France where abstractions have but little influence on minds thoroughly emancipated from theology. The people will gradually find that the solution of the great social problem which Positivism offers is better than the Communistic solution.

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William James
William James
4 months 3 weeks ago
Worry means always and invariably inhibition...

Worry means always and invariably inhibition of associations and loss of effective power. Of course, the sovereign cure for worry is religious faith; and this, of course, you also know. The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed, and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth.

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"The Gospel of Relaxation"
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Voltaire
Voltaire
4 months 3 weeks ago
The superfluous…

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. 

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Variant translation: The superfluous is very necessary, Le Mondain, 1736
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