Sublime

So it turns out that, as unfair as it may seem, symmetry and beauty can result in a more successful career, higher income, more social success, and a potentially easier life.

Elsewhere he deals with evil after the manner of Heraclitus, maintaining that opposites imply one another, and good without evil is logically impossible: “There can be nothing more inept than the people who suppose that good could have existed without the existence of evil. Good and evil being antithetical, both must needs subsist in opposition.”

Success is as dangerous as failure.

Hope is as hollow as fear.

their existence serves to illustrate the necessity of both light and dark, and life and death.

The Greeks had a word, pleonexia—self-serving—which they said was the worst kind of life. We might say that justice, virtue—being good and not just great—is the antithesis of this.

This truth can be difficult for human beings to accept, because so many of us mistakenly think that the things we want out of life are the opposite of the things we don't want and that the middle point of the balance between these is an unsatisfactory mix of hopes fulfilled and unfulfilled.

The lesson is, unsurprisingly, that attractive people—particularly women—are the hard side of the online dating network.

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