Book XXVI, sec. 11
History of Rome
"Keynsianism Again: Interview with Lawrence Klein", Challenge (May-June 2001)
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)
“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”
As quoted in Backstabbing for Beginners : My Crash Course in International Diplomacy (2008) by Michael Soussan, p. 316
“Whoever knows many things
By nature is a poet.”
Olympian 2, line 87; page 16; the Greek simply says:
"wise is one who knows much by nature," but σοφός is Pindar's usual word for poet.
Variant translations:
Inborn of nature's wisdom
The poet's truth.
Olympian Odes (476 BC)
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
VII, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“Things are much more complicated.”
Quotes from interviews, Sydney Morning Herald interview (2003)
Context: Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
I have become, you might call it mature — I would call it senile — and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.
