Maxims


Maxims
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Return to Freedom: A Traveler's Thoughts on Life, Love and the Fate of the World
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Maxims for Revolutionists
Tao Te Ching
Meditations
Scorn: The Wickedest Insults in Human History
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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.
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François de La Rochefoucauld
Of all our passions, that which is most unknown to ourselves is indolence. Although the injuries it causes are very imperceptible, no other passion is more ardent or more malignant. If we consider attentively its influence we shall see that on every occasion it renders itself master of our sentiments, our interests, and our pleasures; it is the remora which arrests the course of the largest vessels, a calm more dangerous to the most important affairs than rocks or tempests. The repose of indolen ...more
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims and Moral Reflections

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