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For a certain kind of temperament, defeat is never defeat by reality, but always defeat by other people, often acting together as members of a class, tribe, conspiracy or clan.
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Value begins where calculation ends, since that which matters most to us is the thing that we will not exchange.
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The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable. For Kant, the virtuous man is so much the master of his passions as scarcely to be prompted by them, and so far indifferent to power and reputation as to regard their significance as nothing beside that of duty itself.
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the power of jealousy is one of the most important facts to be taken account of in the derivation of sexual morality. In a world where sexual prohibitions are of diminishing force, we should not be surprised that so many people take refuge from jealousy in the avoidance of love. For where love exists, the price of sexual freedom is suffering.
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Social traditions exist because they enable a society to reproduce itself. Destroy them heedlessly and you remove the guarantee offered by one generation to the next.
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Roger Scruton |
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Many accuse conservatism of being no more than a highly-wrought work of mourning, a translation into the language of politics of the yearning for childhood that lies deep in us all.
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Eimaste plasmata pou katadunasteuomaste apo to soma,apo tis epithumies mas.Omos mas plettoun kai mas plegonoun exoterikoi paragontes kai egklobizomaste mesa sto sustema tou aitiou kai tou apotelesmatos.Upo autes tis sunthekes uparkhei mia mono alethine sophia ki aute einai na megalosoume te duname mas,kai na epibebaiosoume,oso auto einai dunaton,pos o,ti mas sumbainei to ekhoume prokalesei emeis oi idioi.
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The bitter thought against which Don Juan hopelessly rebels is the same thought that contains the promise of Tristan's consolation: the thought of death. Don Juanism and Tristanism are extreme responses to a perception that lies at the root of human attraction and human love: the thought of our common mortality.
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But what you do with another person's beauty? The satisfied lover is as little able to possess the beauty of his beloved as the one who hopelessly observes it from afar.
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lover
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In Die Welt von Gestern, Stefan Zweig attributed the decline of civil order in Europe to the myth of progress.7 In all the ideologies of his day - communism, socialism, Nazism, fascism - Zweig saw the same pernicious attempt to rewrite the principles of social order in terms of a linear progression from past to future. The
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