интересно, что эта фраза приводится в Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary в более широком контексте:
The reason that books are multiplied in spite of the general law that beings shall not be multiplied without necessity, is that books are made from books. A new history of France or Spain is manufactured from several volumes already printed, without adding anything new. All dictionaries are made from dictionaries; almost all new geographical books are made from other books of geography; St. Thomas’s Dream has brought forth two thousand large volumes of divinity, and the same race of little worms that have devoured the parent are now gnawing the children.опять же интересно, вот этим beings shall not be multiplied without necessity он на Оккама намекает? и еще: в формулировке Books Are MadeWrite, write away; each writer at his pleasure
May squander ink and paper without measure.
и еще один афоризм, не помню где подслушал:
Француз не запирает жену от соседа, потому что знает: если станет запирать, сосед сделает то же самое.
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