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by
James Harris
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December 27, 2023 - January 1, 2024
There is no reason then, to complain about anyone’s behavior if you cannot endure your own.
He who always possesses an undiminished and stable liberty, being free and his own master, towers over all others. For what can possibly be above him who is above Fortune or fate?
Everyone hurries their life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears
In this kind of life there awaits much that is good to know—the love and practice of the virtues, forgetfulness of the passions, knowledge of living and dying, and a life of deep tranquility.
The condition of all who are engrossed is poor, but poorest is the condition of those who labour at engrossments that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders—loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.
