Transvestite
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- For a discussion of the history and current usage of the term transvestite, see transvestitism.
- For information about cross-dressing as part of a sexual fetish, see transvestic fetishism.
- For information about male-to-female cross-dressing as a performing art, see drag queen.
- For information about non-fetish female-to-male cross-dressing, see drag king.
- For general information about cross-dressing, see cross-dresser.
Related topics: transgender, transsexual, gender identity disorder
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opinion, did not give him a satisfactory answer, who reproached him with
amongst the sick, for if they contribute to the health of the sick, no
diseases, they must of necessity impair their own.
Now the end, I take it, is all one, to live at more leisure and at one's
have totally taken leave of all business, when they have only exchanged
private family than a whole kingdom. Wherever the mind is perplexed, it
troublesome for being less important. Moreover, for having shaken off
vexations of life:
"Ratio et prudentia curas,
great ocean, banish care."--Horace, Ep., i. 2.]
ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear, and inordinate desires, do not
Post equitem sedet atra cura;"
["Black care sits behind the horse man."
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"Haeret lateri lethalis arundo."
["The fatal shaft adheres to the side."--AEneid, iv. 73.]
One telling Socrates that such a one was nothing improved by his travels:
Sole mutamus? patriae quis exsul
that by fleeing from his country, can also flee from himself?"
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