Essays

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1. Of Liars
2. That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them
3. That our Happiness Must Not Be Judged Until After Our Death
4. That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die
5. One Man's Profit Is Another Man's Harm
6. Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an accepted Law
7. Of the Education of Children
8. It Is Folly to Measure the True and False by Our own Capacity
9. Of Friendship
10. Of Moderation
11. Of Cannibals
12. Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes
13. Of Soltitude
14. Of Sumptuary Laws
15. Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment
16. Of Ancient Customs
17. Of Age
18. Of Conscience
19. Of Books
20. Apology for Raymond Sebond
21. That Our Desire Is Increased by Difficulty
22. Of Giving the Lie
23. Of Freedom of Conscience
24. Against Do-nothingness
25. Of Evil Means Employed to a Good End
26. Of Virtue
27. Of Anger
28. On Some Verses of Virgil
29. Of the Disadvantage of Greatness

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