
Benedetto Croce, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. trans. R. G. Collingwood, London 1923.
Source: The Book of Rites
Benedetto Croce, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. trans. R. G. Collingwood, London 1923.
“Without complicity, it cannot exist any pleasure.”
Original: Senza la complicità, non può esistere alcun piacere.
Source: prevale.net
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974), p. 46
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Variant translation: No pleasure is itself a bad thing, but the things that produce some kinds of pleasure, bring along with them unpleasantness that is much greater than the pleasure itself.
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