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John Mayall: Karl Marx, c. 1870 (detail)

by Karl Marx

The quality you like best

Simplicity

The quality you like best in man

Strength

The quality you like best in woman

Weakness

Your chief characteristic

Singleness of purpose

Your favourite occupation

Glancing at Netchen/bookworming

The vice you hate most

Servility

The vice you excuse most

Gullibility

Your idea of happiness

To fight

You idea of misery

To submit

Your aversion

Martin Tupper/violet powder

Your hero

Spartacus/Kepler

Your heroine

Gretchen

The poet you like best

Dante/Aeschylus/Shakespeare/Goethe

The prose writer you like best

Diderot/Lessing/Hegel/Balzac

Your favourite flower

Daphne/Laurel

Your favourite dish

Fish

Your maxim

Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me — Terence]

Your motto

De omnibus dubitandum [Doubt everything]

Your favourite colour

Red

Your favourite colour of eyes and hair

Black

Your favourite names

Jenny/Laura

The character in history you most dislike 

[Unanswered]


About the Author

Karl Marx was a German philosopher.

About the Text

Marx answered this questionnaire in 1865. Details can be found here.

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