“Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.”
"The Will to Believe" p. 205 http://books.google.com/books?id=Moqh7ktHaJEC&pg=PA205
1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)
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Omne possibile exigit existere.
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“Show interest in her goodness — for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.”
Bezeig du Interesse an ihrer Güte, denn keiner kann lang gut sein, wenn nicht Güte verlangt wird.
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First God, in Scene 1a, p. 38
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Stanley G. Payne, Falange: A History of Spanish Fascism (1961), p. 31.