Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. (Friedrich Schlegel)

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

Friedrich Schlegel

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