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[...] give him such economic prosperity that he'll have nothing left to do but sleep, eat pastries, and busy himself with assuring the continuance of world history. And even then [...] He'll even risk his pastries and deliberately choose the most pernicious nonsense [...]

[...] I even think that the best definition of man is: a biped, ungrateful. [...]

it will be caught up in a fatal morass, a stinking mess consisting of its own doubts and agitations

unless the translator arrogates to himself the entirely inadmissible right to interpolate