Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Tijana's reading Casanova so she sent me this:

Casanova (C); Protege (V)
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V: 
How can one become a philosopher?

C: 
By thinking.

V: 
One must think a long time?

C: 
Throughout life.

V: 
Then it is never over?

C: 
Never, but one improves as much as possible, and obtains the sum of happiness which one is susceptible to enjoying.

V: 
And how can that happiness be felt?

C: 
by all the pleasure which the philosopher can procure when he is conscious of having obtained them by his own exertions, and especially by getting rid of the many prejudices which make of the majority men a troupe of grown-up children.
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Absolutely fantastic.

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