There's always more to read in any language, but I'm not looking for more, I'm looking for the best, and they are certainly best read in their original language

There's always more to read in any language, but I'm not looking for more, I'm looking for the best, and they are certainly best read in their original languages. Shakespeare in Spanish can't be the same. I want to read Descartes in French, the great philosophers in Mandarin (or whatever form of Chinese they wrote in), etc. You can assert there's no value to you, but many assert otherwise. I'm not sure there's value in our individual assertions. Also, there's a lot of evidence that language drives cognition; that how we perceive and think about the world is constrained and influence by our language, and that other languages enable us to see and understand the world in other ways.