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“A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.”
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“To achieve the nonchalance, which is absolutely necessary for a man, one article at least must not match.”
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“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.”
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“Omnia mutantur; nihil interit”
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“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
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Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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