Many people are only capable of a small share of happiness: it is no more an argument against their wisdom that the latter is unable to give them greater happiness, tha against medical skill that my people are incurable and others always ailing. May everybody have the good fortune to discover that more of life which may enable him to realise his greatest share of happiness: yet, for all that, his life may be miserable and not worth envying.
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Misoginists.—“Woman is our enemy"—the who speaks thus to men betrays an unbridled Iust which does not only loathe itself, but even its means.
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School of the orator.—By keeping silence for a whole year we learn to prate and learn to discourse. The Pythagoreans were the best statesman of their age.
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Sense of power.—Mark the difference: he who wishes to acquire the sense of power seizes upon any and disdains no nourishment to foster it. Whereas he who already possesses it has grown fastidious and refined in his taste; few things satisfy him,
