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If what prevails and survives does so by my help , and cannot do so without that help ; if something else will prevail in case I alter my conduct , how can I possibly now , conscious of alternative courses of action open before me ...
If what prevails and survives does so by my help , and cannot do so without that help ; if something else will prevail in case I alter my conduct , how can I possibly now , conscious of alternative courses of action open before me ...
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The wisest course is to hold the reins of friendship as loose as possible ; you can then tighten or slacken them at your will . For the first condition of a happy life is freedom from care , which no one's mind can enjoy if it has to ...
The wisest course is to hold the reins of friendship as loose as possible ; you can then tighten or slacken them at your will . For the first condition of a happy life is freedom from care , which no one's mind can enjoy if it has to ...
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For he would of course not have been practising rapid marches , nor dashing on a foe , nor hurling spears from a distance , nor using swords at close quarters — but only counsel , reason , and senatorial eloquence .
For he would of course not have been practising rapid marches , nor dashing on a foe , nor hurling spears from a distance , nor using swords at close quarters — but only counsel , reason , and senatorial eloquence .
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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