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Read a book (and not your smartphone) when you travel by public transport. And travel by public transport in a city big enough to have traffic jams.

How does AI and the life-style defined by smartphones relate to this ideal?

If you want to have virtuous rulers - you need to have the right rules and customs to ensure their rise, and encourage them to keep on being virtuous.

I would like to see this painting on the cover of one of my books.

My first book had the title: Trip to Abbazia. Abbazia is the Italian and Hungarian equivalent name of the town Opatija, in today's Croatia. This was its cover. I liked it. But if it had a second edition (perhaps an English translation), it could come with Schiele's painting:

Ferenc Hörcher Both very stylish

Again, one of my favourites. The play with perspective, recalling Renaissance and Barocque forerunners (look at the shortening of the building, and the geometrics of the cube stones). Add to this the report of the life of the middle classes, and also atmosphere painting (rain).

And behind all that: the tradition of the German Bürger, and its update in the works of the Ritter-School.

The life-style of a writer. :)

An old relative told me: if you find a single sentence in a book you consult, it was worthwhile to have it.

Institutions will never survive without communities, which can breathe life into them.

What do you think is most important for a thriving constitutional democracy?

musical notation and calligraphy

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If democracy depends on virtuous character, will we ever have it?