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“In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity?
In good works?
Possibly.
In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps.
But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar; for no mortal being was ever more completely divested of the trammels of the personal and the particular, none ever practiced with more consummated success the divine art of impartiality”
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In good works?
Possibly.
In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps.
But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar; for no mortal being was ever more completely divested of the trammels of the personal and the particular, none ever practiced with more consummated success the divine art of impartiality”
―
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians, Muslims, Hindus or atheist nowadays”
― Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
― Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
“Point n'est besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre, ni de réussir pour perséverer"
"Non occorre sperare (in un buon esito) per impegnarsi (a far prevalere la verità), nè vincere (almeno una battaglia) per perseverare”
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"Non occorre sperare (in un buon esito) per impegnarsi (a far prevalere la verità), nè vincere (almeno una battaglia) per perseverare”
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“Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants of a philosophical treatise originally on papyrus. One of the most interesting is the base of a dedication by one Klearchos, perhaps the known student of Aristotle, that records his bringing to this new Greek city, Alexandria on the Oxus, the traditional maxims from the shrine of Apollo at Delphi concerning the five ages of man:
In childhood, seemliness
In youth, self-control
In middle age, justice
In old age, wise council
In death, painlessness”
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In childhood, seemliness
In youth, self-control
In middle age, justice
In old age, wise council
In death, painlessness”
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Roberto’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Roberto’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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