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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a su...more

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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - by...more

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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely ...more

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Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in al...more

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But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of powe...more

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Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns...more

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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

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I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved a...more

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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector o...more