Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel
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  1. The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with...

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