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Living with less for spiritual gain

Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.

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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion

How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.

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  • A consul. Etching by F. Perrier.
  • Three physiognomies belonging to a Roman consul, a king and a prince. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • G. de Chauliac, Consulation, 14th century
  • G. de Chauliac, Consulation, 14th century
  • The Hon. Hoh-Ah-Kay Whampoa, C.M.G., M.L.C., and Consul for Russia, China and Japan. Photograph by J. Taylor, c. 1881.
  • Constantinople: a boy presents a smoking hookah to Mr Sotiri, Albanian interpreter to the British consul in Bucharest. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • Cyprus : its ancient cities, tombs, and temples a narrative of researches and excavations during ten years' residence as American consul in that island / by Louis Palma di Cesnola.
  • Yokohama, Japan: the British Consulate buildings and grounds. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.
  • En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.
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