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XIV If you wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever , you are foolish , for you wish things to be in your power which are not so , and what belongs to others to be your own . So likewise , if you wish your ...
XIV If you wish your children and your wife and your friends to live forever , you are foolish , for you wish things to be in your power which are not so , and what belongs to others to be your own . So likewise , if you wish your ...
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All men are born with a sufficiently violent liking for domination , wealth , and pleasure , and with a strong taste for idleness ; consequently , all men covet the money , the wives , or the daughters of other men ; they wish to be ...
All men are born with a sufficiently violent liking for domination , wealth , and pleasure , and with a strong taste for idleness ; consequently , all men covet the money , the wives , or the daughters of other men ; they wish to be ...
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But neither is he fit to work with any democratic party that ever was constituted ; for parties wish every one committed , and he penetrates the popular patriotism . His politics are those of the " Soul's Errand " of Sir Walter Raleigh ...
But neither is he fit to work with any democratic party that ever was constituted ; for parties wish every one committed , and he penetrates the popular patriotism . His politics are those of the " Soul's Errand " of Sir Walter Raleigh ...
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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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