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Das Wort Freiheit klingt so schon, dass mann es nicht entbehren koennte und wenn es einen Irrtum bezeichnete.
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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Das Wort Freiheit klingt so schon, dass mann es nicht entbehren koennte und wenn es einen Irrtum bezeichnete.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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The believer who looks to another world to redress the wrongs and horrors of this; the sage who warns us that the law of life is resignation, renunciation, and doing-without (_entbehren sollst du_) -- each of these has a foothold in common language.
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson John Morley 1880
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Philosophy had become sophistical or mystic; its real life survived only in the phrase 'entbehren sollst du, sollst entbehren' of the Stoics.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Philosophy had become sophistical or mystic; its real life survived only in the phrase 'entbehren sollst du, sollst entbehren' of the Stoics.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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The constitution of the world we live in requires it: -- "Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren!
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