1. How humans have repeatedly lost hope, and how new encounters, and a new pair of spectacles, revive them -- 2. How men and women have slowly learned to have interesting conversations -- 3. How people searching for their roots are only beginning to look far and deep enough -- 4. How some people have acquired an immunity to loneliness -- 5. How new forms of love have been invented -- 6. Why there has been more progress in cooking than in sex -- 7. How the desire that men feel for women, and for other men, has altered through the centuries -- 8. How respect has become more desirable than power -- 9. How those who want neither to give orders nor to receive them can become intermediaries -- 10. How people have freed themselves from fear by finding new fears -- 11. How curiosity has become the key to freedom -- 12. Why it has become increasingly difficult to destroy one's enemies -- 13. How the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed, but not the art of knowing where to escape to.
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