They want to tell new truths, and they spout errors that offend common sense.
I confess to you that many modern philosophers displease me by the paradoxes they announce.
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It is true that all this Asian luxury, this refinement of good food, voluptuousness and softness, is not essential to our preservation, and that we could live with more simplicity and frugality than we do but why renounce the pleasures of life, when one can enjoy them? The true philosophy, it seems to me, is that which, without prohibiting use, is content to condemn abuse you have to know how to do without everything, but not give up anything. I confess that my ideas are as different from his as is the finite from the infinite he would never persuade me to graze the grass and crawl. If we didn't have the war, if we weren't ruined, I would have him build a hermitage with a garden, where he could live as he thinks our forefathers lived. I believe, by giving him things in kind, that he will accept them rather than money. I will send you a hundred crowns, which you will have the kindness to give him for what he requires for his needs.
I see we think alike we must relieve this poor wretch, who sins only by having odd opinions, but which he believes to be good. "Your letter, my dear my lord, about Rousseau of Geneva gave me much pleasure.
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