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Title: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 28, 2011, 07:08:51 PM
  I am re-reading "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn. The last time I read it I was a teenager. It is amazing the amount of destruction brought upon the World by statist political ideologies. Fascism and communism were the opposite sides of the same coin, where the government steps in and suppresses individual freedom in an attempt to create heaven on Earth and ends up creating hell on Earth.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: chaos on October 28, 2011, 07:11:08 PM
www.marksimpson.com

A link I was sent by *somebody*. :)
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on October 28, 2011, 07:12:22 PM
 I am re-reading "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn. The last time I read it I was a teenager. It is amazing the amount of destruction brought upon the World by statist political ideologies. Fascism and communism were the opposite sides of the same coin, where the government steps in and suppresses individual freedom in an attempt to create heaven on Earth and ends up creating hell on Earth.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Hulkotron on October 28, 2011, 07:13:27 PM
The small ring of text tattoo'd around your mother's asshole.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 28, 2011, 07:14:39 PM
The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens

  Why am I not surprised? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 28, 2011, 07:17:02 PM
The small ring of text tattoo'd around your mother's asshole.

  You are telling the truth. After all, as a turd, you probably took a good look at it when my mother sat down at the toilet bowl to shit. ;)

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: chaos on October 28, 2011, 07:17:25 PM
The small ring of text tattoo'd around your mother's asshole.
It isn't that small anymore. ;D
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: haider on October 28, 2011, 07:19:02 PM
The small ring of text tattoo'd around your mother's asshole.
x2
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 28, 2011, 07:19:30 PM
It isn't that small anymore.

  Nah, it's just that it appears to be huge to a little shit like you looking at it from your vintage point floating inside the toilet bowl. ;D

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Reeves on October 28, 2011, 07:24:41 PM
Books.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Adam86 on October 28, 2011, 07:28:16 PM
harry potter and the chamber of secrets
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Natural Man on October 28, 2011, 07:30:05 PM
L'EDUCATION DES ENFANTS  ALFRED ADLER
LA FIN DE LA PLAINTE   FRANÇOIS ROUSTANG
SE LIBÉRER DE L'ANXIÉTÉ SANS MÉDICAMENTS   DAVID BURNS
L'INTELLIGENCE EMOTIONNELLE  DANIEL GOLEMAN
GENERATION DOLTO  DIDIER PLEUX
EXPRIMER SA COLÈRE  DIDIER PLEUX
Comprendre l'attachement et les troubles de l'attachement - Théorie, preuve et pratique  Danya Glaser
POURQUOI NOUS AIMONS   HELEN FISHER
LE PÈRE ET L'ENFANT À L'ÉPREUVE DE LA SÉPARATION   JEAN LE CAMUS , MICHÈLE LABORDE
AMOUR SEXUALITÉ ET TENDRESSE    NICOLE JEAMMET
EDUQUER SES ENFANTS    / Adulteres / Les meres et les filles ALDO NAOURI
Legénie et la folie
DE CHAIR ET D'ÂME     BORIS CYRULNIK
LES NOURRITURES AFFECTIVES    BORIS CYRULNIK
AUTOBIOGRAPHIE D'UN ÉPOUVENTAIL   BORIS CYRULNIK
LES VILAINS PETITS CANARDS   BORIS CYRULNIK
LE MURMURE DES FANTÔMES    BORIS CYRULNIK
PARLER D'AMOUR AU BORD DU GOUFFRE    BORIS CYRULNIK
DES HOMMES À AIMER   WILLY PASINI
LES 7 AVANTAGES DE LA BEAUTÉ  WILLY PASINI
LE COUPLE AMOUREUX   WILLY PASINI
L'INTIMITÉ RETROUVÉE    WILLY PASINI
LE TEMPS D'AIMER     WILLY PASINI
LES AMOURS INFIDÈLES     WILLY PASINI
A QUOI SERT LE COUPLE ?   WILLY PASINI
art du bonheur 1 et 2
LA MECHANCETÉ   WILLY PASINI
LA CRISE DU MILIEU DE VIE / UNE DEUXIÈME CHANCE    FRANÇOISE MILLET BARTOLI
PETITS ARRANGEMENTS AVEC L'AMOUR    LUÇY VINCENT
À QUOI RÊVENT NOS ENFANTS   GÉRARD BLÉANDONU
L'ARBRE ENFANT   HUBERT MONTAGNER
LA BIOLOGIE DE L'AMOUR   ARTHUR JANOV
LA PSYCHOGÉNÉALOGIE : TRANSFORMER SON HÉRITAGE PSYCHOLOGIQUE  DORIS ET LISE LANGLOIS
LA RÉPÉTITION DES SCÉNARIOS DE VIE  JEAN COTTRAUX
LA PEUR DES AUTRES    CHRISTOPHE ANDRÉ ET PATRICK LÈGERON
LES PÈRES VONT BIEN  CATHERINE SELLENET
DICTIONNAIRE DE PHILOSOPHIE   NATHAN
HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE DE LA PHILOSOPHIE ET DES PHILOSOPHES    FLAMMARION
LA RÉSILIENCE OU COMMENT RENAÎTRE DE SA SOUFFRANCE      CLAUDE SERON ET BORIS CYRULNIK
DEUIL ET SANTÉ   MARIE FREDERIQUE BACQUÉ
INTRODUCTION À LA PSYCHOLOGIE  RÉJEAN HUET
DICTIONNAIRE FONDAMENTAL DE LA PSYCHOLOGIE  COLLEC IN EXTENSO  A À K  ET L À Z
LE PLAISIR DE LIRE FREUD    J.D. NASIO
LA PHILOSOPHIE   PUF QUE SAIS JE
LA PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIE   PUF QUE SAIS JE
HISTOIRE DES ÉTATS UNIS   PUF QUE SAIS JE
LA PHILOSOPHIE DANS LES PAS DE SOCRATE     JEAN BARDY
FREUD   JEAN LEFRANC HATIER
LE COMPLEXE FRATERNEL René Kais
FREUD   J. SEDAT
Famille et résilience   cyrulnik et michel delage
GUÉRIR DE SON ENFANCE   J.LECOMPTE
Neurobiologie de la personnalité / Joseph Ledoux ; traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Pierre Kaldy.
Le cerveau des émotions : les mystérieux fondements de notre vie émotionnelle / Joseph Ledoux ; préface de Jean-Didier Vincent ; traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Pierre Kaldy.
Se libérer du destin familial   Elisabeth Horowitz
Psychogénéalogie connaître ses ancêtres
Les 4 clés de l'équilibre personnel jacques lafleur
Attachement et perte Bowlby, John
L'attachement au cours de la vie : modèles internes opérants et narratifs / Raphaële Miljkovitch
L'épistémologie génétique / Jean Piaget.
La psychologie de l'enfant / Jean Piaget, Bärbel Inhelder.
La psychologie de l'intelligence / Jean Piaget.
Psychologie du développement cognitif / Bertrand Troadec
Le langage et la pensée chez l'enfant : études sur la logique de l'enfant / Jean Piaget
L'image mentale chez l'enfant : étude sur le développement des représentations imagées / par Jean Piaget, Bärbel Inhelder
Le langage et la pensée chez l'enfant : études sur la logique de l'enfant / Jean Piaget
Le jugement et le raisonnement chez l'enfant / Jean Piaget
La naissance de l'intelligence chez l'enfant / Jean Piaget.
Young / beck
Pour nos ados, soyons adultes      Jeammet, Philippe
Mères : libérez vos filles : trouver la bonne distance     Lion-Julin, Marie
La Bible TOB
pourquoi pleurent ils
devenez une epouse comblée toni spry lou beardsley
le monde médieval, national geographic
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: johnnynoname on October 28, 2011, 07:37:23 PM
I'm reading about your mom's sex life. it's a big book
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: apply85 on October 28, 2011, 07:38:38 PM
if u gotta read a book on how to be an atheist, u got problems, every nursery is filled with them and they don't even know how to read yet
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: JimmyJam1974 on October 28, 2011, 07:39:47 PM
I am reading, The World is Flat 3.0....fucking eye-opening
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: johnnynoname on October 28, 2011, 07:40:31 PM
 I am re-reading "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn. The last time I read it I was a teenager. It is amazing the amount of destruction brought upon the World by statist political ideologies. Fascism and communism were the opposite sides of the same coin, where the government steps in and suppresses individual freedom in an attempt to create heaven on Earth and ends up creating hell on Earth.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

btw, you're not impressing anyone....this is a weightlifting forum where one of the more renowned posters is a gay black guy who sells shitty websites

It's not Mensa, Gloria
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: JimmyJam1974 on October 28, 2011, 07:54:18 PM
I'm reading about your mom's sex life. it's a big book
Solid read.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 28, 2011, 07:55:21 PM
I'm reading about your mom's sex life. it's a big book

  Yes, the only way you'll ever have any kind of sexual contact with females is by reading it in books you f.aggot. "Metrosexual" superstar. Yeah, right.

  Metrosexual = one step away from taking it up the ass. Hope this helps, f.aggot. :)

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 28, 2011, 07:56:07 PM
btw, you're not impressing anyone....this is a weightlifting forum where one of the more renowned posters is a gay black guy who sells shitty websites

It's not Mensa, Gloria

  You are dumb. Period.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: JimmyJam1974 on October 28, 2011, 07:56:32 PM
 Yes, the only way you'll ever have any kind of sexual contact with females is by reading it in books you f.aggot. "Metrosexual" superstar. Yeah, right.

  Metrosexual = one step away from taking it up the ass. Hope this helps, f.aggot. :)

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Gayer than having food allergies
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: chaos on October 28, 2011, 07:58:07 PM
That marksimpson site is interesting, don't you think? :D
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Natural Man on October 28, 2011, 07:58:16 PM
  You are dumb. Period.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
he actually perfectly nailed your character.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: johnnynoname on October 28, 2011, 07:59:32 PM
 Yes, the only way you'll ever have any kind of sexual contact with females is by reading it in books you f.aggot. "Metrosexual" superstar. Yeah, right.

  Metrosexual = one step away from taking it up the ass. Hope this helps, f.aggot. :)

SUCKMYMUSCLE

 You are dumb. Period.

SUCKMYMUSCLE



sorry to be cliche' but this is a pretty epic meltdown




Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 28, 2011, 08:01:19 PM
That marksimpson site is interesting, don't you think? :D

  Actually, now that I checked it out, it turns out to be a gay site. What the fuck are you doing reading that, dude? :-\ Seriously, we joke a lot in this board but it seems like you truly are a f.aggot. :-X

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: johnnynoname on October 28, 2011, 08:02:10 PM
it's like, this guy replied to two, seperate quotes of mine just because I had the gaul to mention that none of us are gonna fawn over the fact that he re-read some pretentious book.

What's even worse is that he started this thread not because he cares what anyone is reading- he just wanted to show off
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: chaos on October 28, 2011, 08:02:26 PM


sorry to be cliche' but this is a pretty epic meltdown





Apparently sucksmanmuscle is closeted and lashing out unable to accept his desire for other men. At least according to one source....and the marksimpson website.....
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 28, 2011, 08:02:46 PM


sorry to be cliche' but this is a pretty epic meltdown






  Ha ha ha ha ha...no, meltdown are the responses of you queers in this thread. It is hilarious how stupid and touchy you turds are. ;D

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Coach is Back! on October 28, 2011, 08:03:53 PM
The Essentials of Sport and Exercise Nutrition, Clinical Book of Sports nutrition and Coach Woodens Pyramid Of Success (again).
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: johnnynoname on October 28, 2011, 08:05:11 PM
Apparently sucksmanmuscle is closeted and lashing out unable to accept his desire for other men. At least according to one source....and the marksimpson website.....

he should read a book about being a faggot that nobody likes in real life and the internet
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: chaos on October 28, 2011, 08:05:48 PM
he should read a book about being a faggot that nobody likes in real life and the internet
He doesn't need to read it, he lives it.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Hulkotron on October 28, 2011, 08:05:53 PM
it's like, this guy replied to two, seperate quotes of mine just because I had the gaul to mention that none of us are gonna fawn over the fact that he re-read some pretentious book.

What's even worse is that he started this thread not because he cares what anyone is reading- he just wanted to show off

"suckmymuscle" reminds me of some asshole I saw outside of Starbucks reading a hardbound copy of Crime & Punishment.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Coach is Back! on October 28, 2011, 08:13:09 PM
Oh yeah....just got done reading "E-Myth"
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Reeves on October 28, 2011, 08:14:29 PM
The Essentials of Sport and Exercise Nutrition, Clinical Book of Sports nutrition and Coach Woodens Pyramid Of Success (again).

Not to be an ass (which I know I can be  ;D) but have you given any thought to the two questions I recently posed?

But say the words, "Fuck off!" and I shall let it go.  Thank you sir.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Leatherneck on October 28, 2011, 08:40:44 PM
Retire with Rentals by Glenn Marsh
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 29, 2011, 12:05:13 PM
"suckmymuscle" reminds me of some asshole I saw outside of Starbucks reading a hardbound copy of Crime & Punishment.

  I am really sorry that these discussions make you feel stupid. Perhaps you should avoid them? I have been reading through your posts and it is pretty obvious that you are not Harvard material. Your lashing out at a genuine thread will not change the fact that you are a stupid person. I think you should avoid all topics that don't involve oiled up men in thongs, or starring at the assholes of women from your vintage point floating inside a toilet bowl. :)

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: The True Adonis on October 29, 2011, 12:10:11 PM
Kalki by Gore Vidal.  Just finished Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: tbombz on October 29, 2011, 01:05:12 PM
various books by paul tillich
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: lovemonkey on October 29, 2011, 01:17:40 PM
I just finished Guns, Germs and Steel. I'm now currently reading Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Swlabr on October 29, 2011, 01:21:59 PM
Schopenhauer's essays. :)
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: The Ugly on October 29, 2011, 01:25:05 PM
Damned, Chuck Palahniuk.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: MAXX on October 29, 2011, 01:28:01 PM
Mein Kampf
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: purenaturalstrength on October 29, 2011, 01:29:19 PM

(http://www.musclemissions.org/public/images/1.jpg)


and the gh15 bible
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Adam86 on October 29, 2011, 05:22:53 PM
devenez une epouse comblée toni spry lou beardsley

 ???

 lol
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: suckmymuscle on October 29, 2011, 05:34:18 PM
Schopenhauer's essays. :)

  I love what Shoppenhauer said about chivalry and women. Western civilization could be saved if men starting to follow his advice.

  "One needs only to see the way she is built to realize that woman is not intended for great mental or for great physical labour. She expiates the guilt of life not through activity but through suffering, through the pains of childbirth, caring for the child and subjection to the man, to whom she should be a patient and cheering companion. Great suffering, joy, exertion, is not for her: her life should flow by more quietly, trivially, gently than the man’s without being essentially happier or happier.

[...] Thus nature has equipped women, as it has all its creatures, with the tools and weapons she needs for securing her existence, and at just the time she needs them; in doing which nature has acted with its usual economy. For just as the female ant loses it’s wings after mating, since they are then superfluous, indeed harmful to the business of raising the family, so the woman usually loses her beauty after one or two childbeds, and probably for the same reason.

As a consequence of her weaker reasoning powers, woman has a smaller share of the advantages and disadvantages these bring with them. She is, rather, a mental myopic …

One must say that the fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflexion but it is strengthened by the fact that, as the weaker sex, they are driven to rely not on force but on cunning: hence their instinctive subtlety and their ineradicable tendency to tell lies … Dissimulation is thus inborn in her and consequently to be found in the stupid woman almost as often as in the clever one … A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility, which is why women see through the dissimulation of others so easily it is inadvisable to attempt it with them.2

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex … More fittingly than the fair sex, women could be called the unaesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor poetry, nor the plastic arts do they possess any real feeling of receptivity: if they affect to do so, it is merely mimicry in service of their effort to please.

The European lady is a creature which ought not to exist at all. What there ought to be is housewives and and girls who hope to become housewives and who are therefore educated, not in arrogant haughtiness, but in domesticity and submissiveness."


SUCKMYMUSCLE


Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: dr.chimps on October 29, 2011, 06:32:57 PM
Kalki by Gore Vidal.  Just finished Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara.
*ADD: My Bad. The title is 'The Killer Angels' by Michael Sharra, not his son, Jeff. Superb book, and a surprise Pulitzer Prize winner (at the time, mind you). Been looking for a good signed 1st copy for years. It's notoriously poorly-constructed.   :-\

/reading chris hedges' (also a pulitzer prize winner) 'empire of illusion.' not impressed so far.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: NYSTATEOFMIND on October 29, 2011, 07:16:07 PM
i been reading dumb ass posts on getbig

thanks for the contribution ;D
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: stuntmovie on October 29, 2011, 08:15:27 PM
DANCING WU LI MASTERS ... a basic book regarding Quantum Mechanics.

NOT because I'm smart but I gotta read it a hell of a lot of times in an attempt to fully understand it ...

and I'm no way near that yet but I have friends who teach the subject and I gotta do my best to keep conversing with them when we gather together with the docs to play Poker on rare occasions.

You can download it free on the net and it's a worthwhile read if you take your time in doing so.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: dantelis on October 29, 2011, 08:26:51 PM
Just finishing Brothers of Iron.  Going to read 3 Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome soon.  Just downloaded it to my iPad.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: dyslexic on October 29, 2011, 09:37:32 PM
Psychology (seventh edition) ~ a bit out-dated

the Secret History (Fallen Angel)

the Shack

the Criminal Mind

Rebuilding the Real You

The Voice of the Martyrs


And one for the pics: Ford Mustang (first gear) by Brad Bowling


I can't just read one book, I like to get them all jumbled up, and then when I get lost, I just pick up the Fountainhead until I go to sleep believing that my pillow... is just a pillow.
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: no one on October 29, 2011, 11:34:39 PM
I'm reading about your mom's sex life. it's a big book

LOL!

dude you kill me.

:D
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: dyslexic on October 30, 2011, 01:30:09 AM
LOL!

dude you kill me.

:D


Wouldn't that be a picture book?
Title: Re: What Have You Been Reading Lately?
Post by: Swlabr on October 30, 2011, 06:00:21 AM
  I love what Shoppenhauer said about chivalry and women. Western civilization could be saved if men starting to follow his advice.

  "One needs only to see the way she is built to realize that woman is not intended for great mental or for great physical labour. She expiates the guilt of life not through activity but through suffering, through the pains of childbirth, caring for the child and subjection to the man, to whom she should be a patient and cheering companion. Great suffering, joy, exertion, is not for her: her life should flow by more quietly, trivially, gently than the man’s without being essentially happier or happier.

[...] Thus nature has equipped women, as it has all its creatures, with the tools and weapons she needs for securing her existence, and at just the time she needs them; in doing which nature has acted with its usual economy. For just as the female ant loses it’s wings after mating, since they are then superfluous, indeed harmful to the business of raising the family, so the woman usually loses her beauty after one or two childbeds, and probably for the same reason.

As a consequence of her weaker reasoning powers, woman has a smaller share of the advantages and disadvantages these bring with them. She is, rather, a mental myopic …

One must say that the fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflexion but it is strengthened by the fact that, as the weaker sex, they are driven to rely not on force but on cunning: hence their instinctive subtlety and their ineradicable tendency to tell lies … Dissimulation is thus inborn in her and consequently to be found in the stupid woman almost as often as in the clever one … A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility, which is why women see through the dissimulation of others so easily it is inadvisable to attempt it with them.2

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex … More fittingly than the fair sex, women could be called the unaesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor poetry, nor the plastic arts do they possess any real feeling of receptivity: if they affect to do so, it is merely mimicry in service of their effort to please.

The European lady is a creature which ought not to exist at all. What there ought to be is housewives and and girls who hope to become housewives and who are therefore educated, not in arrogant haughtiness, but in domesticity and submissiveness."


SUCKMYMUSCLE




I really love how he writes:

“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts, by the operation of chance, and by certain natural affinities, this reputation is quickly won by a hundred worthless people: while a worthy writer may come by it very slowly and tardily. The former possess friends to help them; for the rabble is always a numerous body which holds well together. The latter has nothing but enemies; because intellectual superiority is everywhere and under all circumstances the most hateful thing in the world, and especially to bunglers in the same line of work, who want to pass for something themselves.8
8 If the professors of philosophy should chance to think that I am here hinting at them and the tactics they have for more than thirty years pursued toward my works, they have hit the nail upon the head.]”

and then:

“This explains how modesty came to be a virtue. It was invented only as a protection against envy. That there have always been rascals to urge this virtue, and to rejoice heartily over the bashfulness of a man of merit, has been shown at length in my chief work.”

LOL ;D ;D