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The Active life (n.) would need infinite knowledge to choose rightly among all its goods.
Anxiety (n.) is dispelled by reason only to flare up again at the next disaster.
The Body (n.) feels the soul's afflictions at once, but lacks the strength to follow when the soul recovers.
Epicurus (n.) could swear to his friends during his kidney stones that he felt no pain only because he was living a philosopher's life, not a ruler's or a courtier's.
Flattery (n.) heard all one's life from people incapable of sincerity teaches the useful rule of believing the opposite of what they say.
Happiness (n.) cannot depend on our will alone: some diseases take away the very power to reason, and with it the power to enjoy rational satisfaction.
Immateriality (n.) may be only a fiction of ignorance: finding no material cause, we credit the motion to the contrary of matter — which I can conceive only as matter's negation.
Inactivity (n.) of even the slightest kind lets the mind fall back on its reasons for distress.
A Method (n.) that is new goes unread by old scholars, who are too old to start, having exhausted body and mind on the old one.
Misfortune (n.) always has something surprising about it, however much it is foreseen.