“Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?” MayMeanDifferentEndsThreeSinCasesShameAddLustSensualityHopelessWearyThree TimesExceptionalDupesRecapitulation Author:Remy de Gourmont
“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us... The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?" -Salvian” EvilSinShameVicesAshamedShamefulBarbariansSad But TrueSinsEvil PeopleViceImpurityEvil ThoughtsEvil MenRomansEvilsShame Of SocietyDual MeaningImpuritiesStill True Today Book:Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic Source: Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic