“The worst political state is the popular state.” So Cinna explains to Augustus. But just as good a maxim is “The worst political state is the monarchy.”
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“The worst political state is the popular state.” So Cinna explains to Augustus. But just as good a maxim is “The worst political state is the monarchy.”
There were many atheists among the christians; today they are much fewer.
“It is inconceivable how the ancients, who cultivated the land as well as we do, could imagine that all the seeds they sowed on the ground had to die and rot before sprouting and producing. It would only have needed someone to pull a seed from the ground at the end of two or three days; it would have appeared fine, a bit swollen, the root below and the earth above.”
We’ve got Meslier on Monday and Voltaire on Friday. Our cups runneth over! Faire rire et danser!
I’m not going to post a Meslier every monday or a Voltaire every Friday. I’m just going to do that if I feel like it. But it’s nice to know that I can blog for 100 years here without my well running dry, if I am afraid of that happening. That doesn’t strike me as a likely outcome but having lifelines like these is particularly good.
Nobody should accept mediocrities-by-committee like Milo Yiannopolous in a world that once held Voltaire.