I cannot get out of my head the idea that perhaps the libertine is right after all and practises the true philosophy of life.
Je ne peux m'ôter de l'idée que c'est peut-être après tout le libertin qui a raison et qui pratique la vraie philosophie de la vie.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
The True Philosophy of Life?
Ernest Renan (1823-1892), Recollections of My Youth, tr. C.B. Pitman (London: Chapman and Hall, 1883), p. 137: