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In practice, thousands of little women in their villages have lived more gentle, more equable and more constant lives than Cicero.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Our life is part folly, part wisdom. Whoever writes about it only reverently and according to the rules leaves out more than half of it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Forwarded from Αθηνά (Αθηνά)
A man cannot destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
–Robert Louis Stevenson
Αθηνά
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The only "good" way to get rid of a temptation is to channel it—in Freud's words—by way of sublimation; to turn the burning desire into fuel for a good life. This turns brutality, impulsivity and anger into controlled violence, it turns lust and passion into noble love and constructive relationships, and turns recklessness into courage.

Simply yielding to one's impulses is a form of animality, since animals have no choice but to yield to their impulses, because they lack fore-thought. And savagery is nothing but a form of animality.
Forwarded from Conatus
"The Greeks’ goal is to deify man, not humanize gods—it is theomorphism, not anthropomorphism! Furthermore, the animal in man is not to be ennobled, but rather the human element in animals emphasized, so that we can delight in them in a higher, artistic sense."
— Goethe
Forwarded from CHAOS (Venom)
Forwarded from CHAOS (Venom)
One year ago, ‘Succession’ ended.
CHAOS
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You see these pictures and you imagine they were a cute loving family
Forwarded from CHAOS (Venom)
They are a perfect family (الله لا يچذبني)
CHAOS
They are a perfect family (الله لا يچذبني)
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Prometheus creating man in clay,
By Constantin Hansen
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Prometheus creating man in clay, By Constantin Hansen
According to Greek legends, the gods ordered Prometheus, a titan, to create humans out of clay. While his brother, Epimetheus, created all the animals.