Strenuous objections to the parts show acquiescence in the whole.
May 042023
May 032023
Maximize happiness, promote self-interest, be virtuous, or treat others as you would have them treat you, and the question remains: What will you do?
May 022023
A substantial minority of the respectable citizens who surround you would gladly kill you, if they thought they could get away with it and didn’t have to do the work themselves.
May 012023
How many geniuses there are, yet how few who can understand them!
Apr 282023
The translator before the text must choose, like the citizen before the law, to be faithful to its spirit or its letter.
Apr 272023
It is not always easy to spot a rotter, but “middle-class” as an insult is an infallible sign.
Apr 262023
One often sees accuracy without truth, and sometimes truth without accuracy.
Apr 252023
What do we know of signaling that La Rochefoucauld did not?
Apr 242023
The man makes the deed, and the deed makes the man.
Apr 212023
The great task of industrial civilization was to create leisure, and the great task of post-industrial civilization is to occupy it.