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There’s no fool like an old fool....
The world is full of pots calling kettles black....
We can no more set a term to our passions than to our life.
These are just three of the aphorisms that made the collection of maxims by François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, an enduring influence upon succeeding generations following their initial publication in 1665. The effect continued up to the present day - his admirers have included figures as varied as Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Hardy, Nietzsche, Stendhal, Gide and in more recent times, even Dorothy Parker, herself a prolific producer of epigrams.
Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) a well-known member of the French nobility, had a rich life with a bold military career. He proved courageous in battle, was wounded several times and nearly lost his sight. Not always finding himself on the successful side of politics, his career and standing in high circles was curtailed. However, he was also involved in literary salons and was respected as a moralist and man of letters at a time when it was fashionable to read maxims out loud at gatherings.
A number of editions of his maxims appeared during his lifetime as he revised his choices, deleting some and adding others. In total, a little over 600 have survived, which can be confidently ascribed to La Rochefoucauld. They vary considerably in style, length and content. Many are short (as those mentioned above); but others are longer, aiming at observations or truths which go beyond the witty flourish or the acutely pointed barb. For La Rochefoucauld was a perceptive observer of humanity in all its multi-faceted guises. Often he gave little quarter to human foibles, especially in the area of (in his celebrated phrase) ‘amour-propre’, or self-love, and clearly enjoyed cataloguing a range of emotions and effects where this comes into human play.
But this collection is much more than a basket of one-liners. He discusses aspects of death in an 800-word paragraph - a matter on which he could speak with some authority having faced it on many occasions in battle. He addresses laziness: ‘Of all our emotions, laziness is the one of which we are ourselves least aware. It is also the most intense and malignant of them all, though its violence be imperceptible and the damage it causes remain very well hidden.’
This recording presents a scholarly but accessible 20th-century translation by Constantine FitzGibbon, and opens with an introduction to the life and works of La Rochefoucauld, as well as his own description of himself. It closes with a brief but interesting bibliography, in which FitzGibbon brings clarity to the various editions. It is presented in a very listenable manner by David Rintoul, who gives each maxim the weight and character it deserves.
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- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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The remarkable range of Plato's Dialogues is vividly demonstrated by these three works. It opens with Phaedrus, a highly personal discussion between Socrates (David Rintoul) and the young, love-struck Phaedrus (Gunnar Cauthery). They go for a walk outside the walls of Athens and, under a plane tree by the banks of the Ilissus, talk about love - erotic and 'Platonic' love. Socrates endeavours to steer Phaedrus away from infatuation and show him that real love is based on concern for the beloved.
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Excellent recording, but ...
- De Victor Kanarev en 07-25-20
De: Plato
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Philosophy of Mind
- De: Georg Wilhelm Hegel
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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Philosophy of Mind is the third and final part of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, the collection in which Hegel (1730-1831) offered an overview of his life’s work. Though originally written in 1817, he revised it in 1830, thus providing a finished form the year before his death. Hegel used the three parts of the Encyclopaedia - Science of Logic, Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Mind - as a basis for lectures at the Universities of Heidelberg which he joined in 1816, and in Berlin in 1820.
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Perfectly narrated version of the final third of Hegel’s Encyclopedia.
- De littledarkone en 11-17-18
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- De: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Donald M. Frame - translator
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 49 h y 34 m
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“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself - the freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything.” (Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review)
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Stands next to the Bible and M.A.'s Meditations
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, y otros
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The Golden Bough
- A Study in Magic and Religion
- De: Sir James George Frazer
- Narrado por: Andrew Cullum
- Duración: 44 h y 16 m
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The Golden Bough, the monumental study of religious rites and practices in ‘primitive’ societies, was one of the earliest influential texts in anthropology. Its author, Sir James Frazer, surveyed the wide range of cultural habits, taboos and beliefs in communities across the world concluding that there was an observable pattern in the way magic developed into religion, though formal expression emerged in different ways.
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Epic
- De Mississippi Hippy en 08-01-23
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The Principal Speeches of Demosthenes
- A Selection
- De: Demosthenes
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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Demosthenes (384-322 BCE) is regarded as one of the greatest orators of Classical times. This view has persisted through the centuries even though his rousing speeches warning of the dangers of Macedonian expansion failed to stem the course of continued military success. Each of the orations in this collection is preceded with an introduction setting the scene, and outlining the context in which they were delivered. This also gives a concise picture of Athens at this difficult point in its history. All the speeches are prefaced by the historical setting.
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Narration is difficult
- De Ken Johnson en 06-04-23
De: Demosthenes
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The Socratic Dialogues
- Alcibiades and Other Attributed Dialogues
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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The influence of Plato, his Dialogues and his ‘Academy', cast a long shadow. Around 35 Dialogues, almost all featuring Socrates as the principal figure, are generally ascribed to Plato and form one of the most important threads in Western philosophy. These four Dialogues may fall into the ‘Attributed Texts' category, but they are of sufficient interest to warrant study in our time and when set against the principal canon.
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Great to have Alcibiades, would love more…
- De Steve Deal en 11-29-23
De: Plato
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The Socratic Dialogues Middle Period, Volume 2
- Phaedrus, Cratylus, Parmenides
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: David Rintoul, Laurence Kennedy, full cast
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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The remarkable range of Plato's Dialogues is vividly demonstrated by these three works. It opens with Phaedrus, a highly personal discussion between Socrates (David Rintoul) and the young, love-struck Phaedrus (Gunnar Cauthery). They go for a walk outside the walls of Athens and, under a plane tree by the banks of the Ilissus, talk about love - erotic and 'Platonic' love. Socrates endeavours to steer Phaedrus away from infatuation and show him that real love is based on concern for the beloved.
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Excellent recording, but ...
- De Victor Kanarev en 07-25-20
De: Plato
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Philosophy of Mind
- De: Georg Wilhelm Hegel
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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Philosophy of Mind is the third and final part of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, the collection in which Hegel (1730-1831) offered an overview of his life’s work. Though originally written in 1817, he revised it in 1830, thus providing a finished form the year before his death. Hegel used the three parts of the Encyclopaedia - Science of Logic, Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Mind - as a basis for lectures at the Universities of Heidelberg which he joined in 1816, and in Berlin in 1820.
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Perfectly narrated version of the final third of Hegel’s Encyclopedia.
- De littledarkone en 11-17-18
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
- De: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Donald M. Frame - translator
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 49 h y 34 m
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“A faithful translation is rare; a translation which preserves intact the original text is very rare; a perfect translation of Montaigne appears impossible. Yet Donald Frame has realized this feat. One does not seem to be reading a translation, so smooth and easy is the style; at each moment, one seems to be listening to Montaigne himself - the freshness of his ideas, the unexpected choice of words. Frame has kept everything.” (Andre Maurois, The New York Times Book Review)
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Stands next to the Bible and M.A.'s Meditations
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-12
De: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, y otros
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The Golden Bough
- A Study in Magic and Religion
- De: Sir James George Frazer
- Narrado por: Andrew Cullum
- Duración: 44 h y 16 m
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The Golden Bough, the monumental study of religious rites and practices in ‘primitive’ societies, was one of the earliest influential texts in anthropology. Its author, Sir James Frazer, surveyed the wide range of cultural habits, taboos and beliefs in communities across the world concluding that there was an observable pattern in the way magic developed into religion, though formal expression emerged in different ways.
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Epic
- De Mississippi Hippy en 08-01-23
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The Principal Speeches of Demosthenes
- A Selection
- De: Demosthenes
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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Demosthenes (384-322 BCE) is regarded as one of the greatest orators of Classical times. This view has persisted through the centuries even though his rousing speeches warning of the dangers of Macedonian expansion failed to stem the course of continued military success. Each of the orations in this collection is preceded with an introduction setting the scene, and outlining the context in which they were delivered. This also gives a concise picture of Athens at this difficult point in its history. All the speeches are prefaced by the historical setting.
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Narration is difficult
- De Ken Johnson en 06-04-23
De: Demosthenes
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The Socratic Dialogues
- Alcibiades and Other Attributed Dialogues
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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The influence of Plato, his Dialogues and his ‘Academy', cast a long shadow. Around 35 Dialogues, almost all featuring Socrates as the principal figure, are generally ascribed to Plato and form one of the most important threads in Western philosophy. These four Dialogues may fall into the ‘Attributed Texts' category, but they are of sufficient interest to warrant study in our time and when set against the principal canon.
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Great to have Alcibiades, would love more…
- De Steve Deal en 11-29-23
De: Plato
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The Socratic Dialogues Middle Period, Volume 1
- Symposium, Theaetetus, Phaedo
- De: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translation
- Narrado por: David Rintoul, Hugh Ross, full cast
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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Here are three important but very different Dialogues from the Middle Period. Symposium, the most well-known in this collection, is concerned with the theme of love. In the house of Agathon, a group of friends - each very different in personality and background - meet to consider and discuss various kinds of love. Each one, Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes (the playwright) and Agathon (a prize-winning tragic poet), presents his particular view in a short discourse.
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not theaetetus
- De Joshua en 01-16-18
De: Plato, y otros
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Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
- De: Michel de Montaigne
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 53 h y 12 m
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In 1572, Montaigne - nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man - retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of "essays" - attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals, and books to thumbs, war-horses, and the wearing of clothes. He made the study of himself the starting point for investigations into how to live, and wrote with a startlingly modern candor about love, grief, friendship, sex, and death.
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Elements of the Philosophy of Right
- De: Georg Wilhelm Hegel, S. W. Dyde - translation
- Narrado por: Jonathan Booth
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Elements of The Philosophy of Right, a key work in the output of Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831), appeared in 1820 - and was arguably his last major publication. His intention was to state his views on the philosophy of law, political and social theory and ethics. Appearing as it did in a crucial time for the Prussian state - still affected by the Napoleonic wars and their aftermath - it was viewed differently by those on both the left and the right of the political spectrum.
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Excellent rendition of an immortal work.
- De littledarkone en 08-12-18
De: Georg Wilhelm Hegel, y otros
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- De: Jeremy Bentham
- Narrado por: Andrew Cullum
- Duración: 17 h y 4 m
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Underlain by an acute sense of ethics, this provided the basis for his strongly declared, wide-ranging views on many subjects: prohibition of cock-fighting, liberty of the press, universal suffrage, the removal of religious tests for office and even hunting. All were radical ideas for his time. He also proposed the decriminalisation of homosexuality, though even he did not dare to publish his essay on this subject during his lifetime. But An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation was his major work.
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- De Amazon Customer en 12-30-20
De: Jeremy Bentham
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The Enneads Volume 1 (1-3)
- De: Plotinus, Stephen McKenna - translator
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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Plotinus (204/5 -270 CE), born in Lycopolis, Egypt, when it was part of the Roman Empire, was a major figure in the philosophical school later called Neoplatonism. Neoplatonists viewed reality as deriving from a single force or figure expressed as 'the One'. Two further concepts from Plotinus, 'the Intellect' and 'the Soul', are also principal features of his philosophy. These proposals led to the work of Plotinus forming a bridge between Plato and the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as well as Gnosticism.
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An Exemplar for Spirituality
- De Gary en 02-10-18
De: Plotinus, y otros
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Origen
- De: Joseph Trigg
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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Origen (c. 185-c. 253) was the most influential Christian theologian before Augustine, the founder of Biblical study as a serious discipline in the Christian tradition, and a figure with immense influence on the development of Christian spirituality. This volume presents a comprehensive and accessible insight into Origen's life and writings, written and compiled by Joseph W. Trigg, a leading Origen authority. An introduction analyzes the principal influences that formed him as a Christian and as a thinker.
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Thankful for this book
- De A from VA en 03-22-24
De: Joseph Trigg
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Summa Theologica Volume 4 Part III (Tertia Pars)
- De: Thomas Aquinas, Father Laurence Shapcote of the Dominican Order - translator
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 47 h y 52 m
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Summa Theologica Part III (Tertia Pars) is Volume 4 in Ukemi Audiobooks’ complete recording of Thomas Aquinas’s momentous work on Christian theology and philosophy. The presentation of the discussions in Part III follow the pattern we have become so familiar with from earlier Parts with the statement of the question, then a series of objections, further considerations and finally Aquinas’s replies to each of the objections.
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Once is not enough
- De dglend en 08-17-24
De: Thomas Aquinas, y otros
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Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Six Full-Cast Dramatisations Including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and More
- De: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Narrado por: Simon Callow, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jack Farthing, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
- De: Émile Durkheim
- Narrado por: Mike Rogers
- Duración: 19 h y 54 m
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Religion is at the heart of man’s societies. ‘For a long time,’ Durkheim writes early on in his book, ‘it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin.’ Durkheim decided to examine how and why this phenomenon functioned and evolved - by looking specifically at simple societies and their religions, rather than at religions in more complex or developed societies.
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A truly insightgul conclusion, the rest is good
- De GATINEAU Jeremy en 08-03-22
De: Émile Durkheim
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Orlando
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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Published in 1928, Orlando is a fictional biography that spans several centuries and follows the protagonist, Orlando, an Elizabethan nobleman who undergoes a mysterious gender transformation. The novel explores themes of gender identity, fluidity and the constraints imposed by societal norms. It challenges traditional notions of gender roles and raises questions about the nature of identity and the passage of time.
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Why the Hype?
- De K. Mattis en 03-03-24
De: Virginia Woolf
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Twilight of the Idols, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
- How to Philosophise with a Hammer
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Michael Lunts
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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Though Twilight of the Idols (written in a week in 1888 and subtitled How to Philosophise with a Hammer) came near the end of Nietzsche’s creative life, he actually recommended it as a starting point for the study of his work. This was because from the beginning he viewed it as an introduction to his wide-ranging views.
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Philosophy.
- De Jacob en 09-13-24
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Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo
- De: Sigmund Freud
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is remembered as the father of psychoanalysis. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) is one of his key works, written three decades after his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams. In it he considers the conflict between the needs of the individual acting both egotistically and altruistically in the pursuit of happiness and the myriad demands of civilised society and the ensuing tensions this clash of needs and demands generates.
De: Sigmund Freud
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Maxims
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Damning Wisdom
I have a feeling just about anyone would enjoy this audiobook. The wisdom hits home. It's all short and sweet. Here's a fine sample: "#284: There are wicked men who would be *less* dangerous were they quite devoid of goodness." I also recommend the Maxims of Goethe. Wisdom is one of our great weapons.
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Maxims by Francois Duc de Rochefoucauld is a timeless masterpiece that transcends language, cultural, geographic and time barriers. Written in the 17th century, this book is still relevant today, offering insights into human nature and the complexities of the human psyche. The author's keen observations on human behavior and the motivations that drive people are as true today as they were centuries ago. The book is a treasure trove of wisdom and offers valuable insights into the human condition. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand themselves and others better. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, or human behavior.
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